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Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: ...

Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: ...

Philoponus,

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.
Philoponus on Aristotle's On Coming-to-be and Perishing 1.1-5

Philoponus on Aristotle's On Coming-to-be and Perishing 1.1-5

John Philoponus

" "But what inspires Philoponus most in his commentary on these chapters is the topic of organic growth. How does it take place without ingested matter getting into the same place as the growing body?
Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 2

Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 2

Philoponus,

Leunissen, M. (forthcoming), 'Aristotle and Philoponus on Final Causes in Demonstrations in Posterior Analytics II.11', in Frans de Haas and Mariska Leunissen (eds), Interpretations ofAristotle's Posterior Analytics, Leiden. Lloyd, A.C. (1990) ...
John Philoponus' New Definition of Prime Matter: Aspects of ...

John Philoponus' New Definition of Prime Matter: Aspects of ...

Frans A. J. De Haas

This is the first full discussion of Philoponus' account of matter.
On Aristotle's "Physics 1.1-3"

On Aristotle's "Physics 1.1-3"

John Philoponus

His controversial claim that this is to progress from the universal to the more particular occasions extensive apologetic exegesis, typical of Philoponus' meticulous and somewhat pedantic method.
Philoponus: Against Proclus On the Eternity of the World 1-5

Philoponus: Against Proclus On the Eternity of the World 1-5

Philoponus,

This is a post-Aristotelian Greek philosophical text, written at a crucial moment in the defeat of paganism by Christianity, AD 529, when the Emperor Justinian closed the pagan Neoplatonist school in Athens.
John Philoponus and the Controversies Over Chalcedon in the ...

John Philoponus and the Controversies Over Chalcedon in the ...

Uwe Michael Lang

The reader will also find here a treatment of a number of philological and historical issues concerning Philoponus' Christological writings, an English translation of the Arbiter, and a critical edition of newly discovered Greek fragments ...
Philoponus: On Aristotle On the Intellect (de Anima 3.4-8)

Philoponus: On Aristotle On the Intellect (de Anima 3.4-8)

William Charlton

Although it is one of the richest and most interesting of the ancient works on Aristotle, Philoponus' commentary has survived only in William of Moerbeke's thirteenth-century Latin translation from a partly indecipherable Greek manuscript.
Interpreting Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics in Late ...

Interpreting Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics in Late ...

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F.A.J. de Haas, Mariska Leunissen, Marije Martijn. Like many modern commentators, Philoponus judges the example to be vague, and seems to imply that Aristotle must have been confused when he set out the syllogism. In what sense ...
Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On ...

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On ...

J.O. Urmson

Simplicius' comments on Aristotle's treatment of place and time have been translated by J. O. Urmson in two earlier volumes of this series.

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