Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 5-8

Informationen zum Autor Themistius was an ancient Greek statesman, rhetorician, and philosopher. He was admitted to the senate in 355, and was prefect of Constantinople in 384CE. Of his many works, thirty-three orations remain, alongside commentaries on the works of Aristotle. Robert B. Todd is Quondam Professor of Classics, University of British Columbia. He has translated three volumes of Themistius' paraphrase of Aristotle's Physics in this series, Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Klappentext Themistius' treatment of Books 5-8 of Aristotle's Physics shows this commentator's capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. His paraphrase offered his ancient students, as they will now offer his modern readers, an opportunity to encounter central features of Aristotle's physical theory, synthesized and epitomized in a manner that has always marked Aristotelian exegesis but was raised to a new level by the innovative method of paraphrase pioneered by Themistius. Taking selective but telling accounts of the earlier Peripatetic tradition (notably Theophrastus and Alexander of Aphrodisias), this commentator creates a framework that can still be profitably used by Aristotelian scholars today. Zusammenfassung Discusses the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. This book covers the central features of Aristotle's physical theory, synthesized and epitomized in a manner that has always marked Aristotelian exegesis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface - Richard Sorabji Conventions Introduction Textual Emendations Translation Book 5 Book 6 (chs 1-6; 8-10) Book 7 (chs 2-5) Book 8 Notes Bibliography and Abbreviations English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Index of Passages Cited Subject Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Themistius
• Assisted by: Michael Griffin (Editor), Robert B. Todd (Translation), Todd Robert B. (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2014
• EAN: 9781472558169
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-5816-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristo; Print On Demand; Ancient Commentators on Aristotle; Ancient Commentators on Aristo
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Poetry, drama; PHILOSOPHY / General, Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Physics, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages