Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: Against - Philoponus on the Eternity of the Worl

In the Corollaries on Place and Void , Philoponus attacks Aristotle''s conception of place as two-dimensional, adopting instead the view more familiar to us that it is three-dimensional, inert and conceivable as void. Philoponus'' denial that velocity in the void would be infinite anticipated Galileo, as did his denial that speed of fall is proportionate to weight, which Galileo greatly developed. In the second document Simplicius attacks a lost treatise of Philoponus which argued for the Christians against the eternity of the world. He exploits Aristotle''s concession that the world contains only finite power. Simplicius'' presentation of Philoponus'' arguments (which may well be tendentious), together with his replies, tell us a good deal about both Philosophers.>

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• Authors: Philoponus, John Philoponus
• Assisted by: D. Furley (Translation), W. D. Furley (Translation), Furley W. D. (Translation), C. Wildberg (Translation), Wildberg C. (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2014
• EAN: 9781780933740
• ISBN: 978-1-78093-374-0
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristo; Ancient Commentators on Aristotle; Ancient Commentators on Aristo
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Literary essays, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500