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List of contents
Conventions
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Principal Philosophers and Mathematicians Discussed
Editors’ Preface
Note on Text and Translation
Translation
Notes
Bibliography
English-Greek Glossary
Greek-English Index
Subject Index
About the author
Stephen Menn is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Canada.
Summary
With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1–2, Aristotle raises the question of the number and character of the first principles of nature and feels the need to oppose the challenge of the paradoxical Eleatic philosophers who had denied that there could be more than one unchanging thing.
This volume, part of the groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time Simplicius' commentary on this selected text, and includes a brief introduction, extensive explanatory notes, indexes and a bibliography.
Previous published volumes translating Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics can all be found in Bloomsbury’s series:
- On Aristotle Physics 1.3–4, tr. P. Huby and C. C. W. Taylor, 2011
- On Aristotle Physics 1.5–9, tr. H. Baltussen, M. Atkinson, M. Share and I. Mueller, 2012
- On Aristotle Physics 2, tr. B. Fleet, 1997
- On Aristotle Physics 3, tr. J. O. Urmson with P. Lautner, 2001
- On Aristotle Physics 4.1–5 and 10–14, tr. J. O. Urmson, 1992
- On Aristotle on the Void, tr. J. O. Urmson, 1994 (=Physics 4.6–9; published with Philoponus, On Aristotle Physics 5–8, tr. P. Lettinck)
- On Aristotle Physics 5, tr. J. O. Urmson, 1997
- On Aristotle Physics 6, tr. D. Konstan, 1989
- On Aristotle Physics 7, tr. C. Hagen, 1994
- On Aristotle Physics 8.1–5, tr. I. Bodnar, M. Chase and M. Share, 2012
- On Aristotle Physics 8.6–10, tr. R. McKirahan, 2001
Foreword
The final volume of the translation of Simplicius’ neoplatonic commentary on Aristotle's Physics, covering Book 1.1–2.
