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De mundo is a protreptic to philosophy offering a unique view of God and the cosmos, inspired by Aristotle.
List of contents
1. Introduction Pavel Gregori¿ and George Karamanolis; 2. On philosophy and its proper subject (Chapter 1) George Karamanolis; 3. The heavenly sphere (Chapter 2, 391b9-392a31) Karel Thein; 4. The sublunary domain (Chapters 2-3, 392a31-393a8) Jakub Jirsa; 5. Geography (Chapter 3, 392a31-393a8) Irene Pajón Leyra and Hynek Bartoš; 6. Meteorology (Chapter 4) István Baksa; 7. The eternity of the cosmos (Chapter 5) Pavel Gregori¿; 8. God's relation to the cosmos (Chapter 6) Gábor Betegh and Pavel Gregori¿; 9. God's many names (Chapter 7) Vojt¿ch Hladký.
About the author
Pavel Gregorić is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, working on ancient, Renaissance and early modern philosophy. He has published Aristotle on the Common Sense (2007), and is a co-editor of the volume Encounters with Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind (2020) and a contributor to Hackett's forthcoming new translation of Aristotle complete works.George Karamanolis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He has published Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry (2006) and The Philosophy of Early Christianity (2013), and edited Studies on Porphyry (with Anne Sheppard, 2007) and The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy (with Vasilis Politis, Cambridge, 2017).
Summary
De mundo is a protreptic to philosophy and a work of both cosmology and theology, inspired by Aristotle. It is unique in presenting both a scientific explanation of the universe and a philosophical account focusing on the supreme cause of the universe's coherence and stability, God.
