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Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.10-12

Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.10-12

Hankinson, R. J.
Simplicius

Paperback

Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

PhilosophyAstronomy & Space

ISBN10: 1472557433
ISBN13: 9781472557438
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 10 2014
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius' commentary, translated here, we see a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens Simplicius partly preserves. Simplicius' rival, the Christian Philoponus, had conducted a parallel battle in his Against Proclus but had taken the side of Alexander against Proclus and other Platonists, arguing that Plato's Timaeus gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius takes the Platonist side, denying that Plato intended a beginning. The origin to which Plato refers is, according to Simplicius, not a temporal origin, but the divine cause that produces the world without beginning.

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