Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.1-3 - Couverture souple

Osborne, Catherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472557697 ISBN 13 : 9781472557698

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Until the launch of this series over fifteen years ago, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 600 Ad, constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or other European languages. In this, the first half of Philoponus' analysis of book one of Aristotle's Physics, the principal themes are metaphysical. Aristotle's opening chapter in the Physics is an abstract reflection on methodology for the investigation of nature, or 'physics'. Aristotle suggests that one must proceed from things that are familiar but vague, and derive more precise but less obvious principles to constitute genuine knowledge. His controversial claim that this is to progress from the universal to the more particular occasions extensive apologetic exegesis, typical of Philoponus' meticulous and somewhat pedantic method. Philoponus explains away the apparent conflict between the 'didactic method' (unavoidable in physics) and the strict demonstrative method described in the Analytics. After 20 pages on Chapter 1, Philoponus devotes the remaining 66 pages to Aristotle's objections to two major Presocratic thinkers, Parmenides and Melissus. Aristotle included these thinkers as an aside, because they were not engaged in physics, but in questioning the very basis of physics. Philoponus investigates Aristotle's claims about the relation between a science and its axioms, explores alternative ways of formalising Aristotle's refutation of Eleatic monism and provides a sustained critique of Aristotle's analysis of the Eleatics' purported mistakes about unity and being.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Catherine Osborne is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK. As Catherine Osborne, she is the translator of Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.1-3 and 1.4-9, in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, both available from Bloomsbury (2006, 2009); author of Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers: Humanity and the Human and Literature in Ancient Philosophy (2007) and Presocratic Philosophy: a very Short Introduction (2004).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1472557697
• ISBN 13: 9781472557698
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160