On Aristotle's "On the heavens 1.10-12":

"In these three chapters of On the Heavens, Aristotle argues that the universe in ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius's commentary there is a battle between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens Simpli...

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1. Verfasser: Simplikios 480-538 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Ancient Greek
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press 2006
Schriftenreihe:[The ancient commentators on Aristotle]
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Zusammenfassung:"In these three chapters of On the Heavens, Aristotle argues that the universe in ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius's commentary there is a battle between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens Simplicius partly preserves." "Simplicius's 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Series from jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-119) and indexes
Beschreibung:x, 134 S.
ISBN:0801442168