Philoponus' treatise Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World , an attack on Aristotle's astronomy and theology is concerned mainly with the eternity and divinity of the fifth element, or 'quintessence', of which Aristotle took the stars to be composed. Pagans and Christians were divided on whether the world had a beginning, and on whether a belief that the heavens were divine was a mark of religion. Philoponus claimed on behalf of Christianity that the universe was not eternal. His most spectacular arguments, where wrung paradox out of the pagan belief in an infinite past, have been wrongly credited by historians of science to a period 700 years later.
The treatise was to influence Islamic, Jewish, Byzantine and Latin thought, though the fifth element was defended against Philoponus even beyond the time of Copernicus. The influence of the treatise was not easy to trace before the fragments were assembled. Dr. Wildberg has brought them together for the first time and provided a summary which makes coherent sense of the whole. He has also studied a Syriac fragment, which reveals that the treatise originally contained an explicitly theological section on the Christian expectation of a new heaven and a new earth.

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Philoponus: Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)

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Against Aritstotle on the eternity of the world

De aeternitate mundi contra Aristolelem

De aeternitate mundi contra Aristotelem

Philoponus; translated by Christian Wildberg

John Philoponus; Bloomsbury (Firm)

Wildberg, Christian

Johannes

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Classical Press of Wales

Bristol Classical Press

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Bloomsbury UK

Methuen Drama

Duckworth

Prelude

Farrago

Ancient commentators on Aristotle, Ancient commentators on Aristotle (London, England), London, 1987

The Ancient commentators on Aristotle, London, United Kingdom, 1987

Ancient commentators on Aristotle, 1st ed, London, 1987

Ancient commentators on Aristotle, London, 2014

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Bloomsbury UK, London, 1987

NIPPOD, US, 2014

1, 20140601

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Includes indexes.
Translation from the Greek.

Translation of extant fragments of: De aeternitate mundi contra Aristotelem.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Translation of extant fragments of: De aeternitate mundi contra Aristotelem.
Includes indexes.

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"These chapters of Aristotle's treatise are about physical interactions. In his innovative commentary, Philoponus discusses Aristotle's idea that certain qualities of the elements are basic. In what way are they basic? he asks. To what extent can the other qualities be reduced to the basic ones? And if the other qualities depend on the basic ones, how is it that they can vary independently of each other when the basic qualities change? Philoponus develops the idea that the other qualities merely supervene on the basic ones, rather than resulting from them. Moreover, physical qualities admit of different ranges of variation, and so have different thresholds at which they appear or disappear. Philoponus also discusses Aristotle's idea that the elements and their basic qualities survive potentially when mixed together. He explains this by drawing a third sense of 'potential' out of Aristotle's texts to take the place of the two senses which Aristotle explicitly recognises. Philoponus adds further restrictions to Aristotle's principles of causation. Black can contaminate white, but the black in ebony does not have the right matter for affecting the white of milk. He asks why fluids can affect each other more easily than solids. In every case, Philoponus takes Aristotle's discussions further, and his ideas on the dependence of some qualities on others are very relevant to the continuing philosophical debate on the subject."--Bloomsbury Publishing
These chapters of Aristotle's treatise are about physical interactions. In his innovative commentary, Philoponus discusses Aristotle's idea that certain qualities of the elements are basic. In what way are they basic? he asks. To what extent can the other qualities be reduced to the basic ones? And if the other qualities depend on the basic ones, how is it that they can vary independently of each other when the basic qualities change? Philoponus develops the idea that the other qualities merely supervene on the basic ones, rather than resulting from them. Moreover, physical qualities admit of different ranges of variation, and so have different thresholds at which they appear or disappear. Philoponus also discusses Aristotle's idea that the elements and their basic qualities survive potentially when mixed together. He explains this by drawing a third sense of 'potential' out of Aristotle's texts to take the place of the two senses which Aristotle explicitly recognises. Philoponus adds further restrictions to Aristotle's principles of causation. Black can contaminate white, but the black in ebony does not have the right matter for affecting the white of milk. He asks why fluids can affect each other more easily than solids. In every case, Philoponus takes Aristotle's discussions further, and his ideas on the dependence of some qualities on others are very relevant to the continuing philosophical debate on the subject.

Philoponus ; Translated By Christian Wildberg. Translation Of Extant Fragments Of: De Aeternitate Mundi Contra Aristotelem. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.

2023-06-30