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In the chapters discussed in this section of 'Philoponus' Physics commentary' Aristotle explores a range of questions about the basic structure of reality, the nature of prime matter, the principles of change, the relation between form and matter, and the issue of whether things can come into being out of nothing, and if so, in what sense that is true. Philoponus' commentaries do not merely report and explain Aristotle and the other thinkers whom Aristotle is discussing. They are also the philosophical work of an independent thinker in the Neoplatonic tradition. Philoponus has his own, occasionally idiosyncratic, views on a number of important issues, and he sometimes disagrees with other teachers whose views he has encountered perhaps in written texts, and sometimes in oral delivery. A number of distinctive passages of philosophical importance occur in this part of Book 1, in which we see Philoponus at work on issues in physics and cosmology, as well as logic and metaphysics.
| Book: | Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.4-9 (Ancient Commentators On Aristotle) |
| Author: | Catherine Osborne |
| ISBN: | 0715637878 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780715637876 |
| Binding: | Hardbound |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-05-01 |
| Publisher: | Duckworth Publishing |
| Number of Pages: | 185 |
| Language: | English |
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