Themistius' treatment of Books 5-8 of Aristotle's Physics shows this commentator's capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. His paraphrase offered his ancient students, as they will now offer his modern readers, an opportunity to encounter central features of Aristotle's physical theory, synthesized and epitomized in a manner that has always marked Aristotelian exegesis but was raised to a new level by the innovative method of paraphrase pioneered by Themistius. Taking selective but telling accounts of the earlier Peripatetic tradition (notably Theophrastus and Alexander of Aphrodisias), this commentator creates a framework that can still be profitably used by Aristotelian scholars today.
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Discusses the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. This book covers the central features of Aristotle's physical theory, synthesized and epitomized in a manner that has always marked Aristotelian exegesis.
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Preface - Richard Sorabji
Conventions
Introduction
Textual Emendations
Translation
Book 5
Book 6 (chs 1-6; 8-10)
Book 7 (chs 2-5)
Book 8
Notes
Bibliography and Abbreviations
English-Greek Glossary
Greek-English Index
Index of Passages Cited
Subject Index

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Discusses the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover
Discusses the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover

The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series is a prestigious scholarly project, which translates into English the principal works of the Neoplatonist commentators on Aristotle. The translation in each volume is accompanied by an introduction, comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography, glossary of translated terms and a subject index.

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Product details

ISBN
9781472558169
Published
2014-04-10
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight
304 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
U, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
204

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Biographical note

Robert B. Todd is former Quondam Professor of Classics, University of British Columbia and Fellow of the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science. He has translated three volumes of Themistius' paraphrase of Aristotle's Physics in this series, Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, including Themistius: On Aristotle on the Soul and Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 4.