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.>

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Textual Emendations
TRANSLATION
Notes
Bibliography English-Greek
Glossary Greek-English Index
Index of Passages Cited
Subject
Index

About the author

David Furley is Professor of Classics at Princeton University.
Christian Wildberg is Lecturer in Greek at the Freie Universität, Berlin

Product details

• Authors: David J Furley, David J. Furley, Philoponus, John Philoponus, Philoponus John, Christian Wildberg
• Assisted by: David J. Furley (Editor), Furley David (Editor), Christian Wildberg (Editor), Wildberg Christian (Editor), W. D. Furley (Translation), Furley D. (Translation), C. Wildberg (Translation), Wildberg C. (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.1991
• EAN: 9780715622506
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-2250-6
• No. of pages: 153
• Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Essays, Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Literary essays, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500