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Aristotleâs Ever-turning World in Physics 8: Analysis and Commentary
Series: - Philosophia Antiqua, Volume: 141
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In Aristotleâs Ever-turning World in Physics 8 Dougal Blyth analyses, passage by passage, Aristotleâs reasoning in his explanation of cosmic movement, and provides a detailed evaluation of ancient and modern commentary on this centrally influential text in the history of ancient and medieval philosophy and science. In Physics 8 Aristotle argues for the everlastingness of the world, and explains this as deriving from a single first moved body, the sphere of the stars whose rotation around the earth is caused by an immaterial prime mover.
Blythâs explanation of Aristotleâs individual arguments, techniques of reasoning and overall strategy in Physics 8 aims to bring understanding of his method, doctrines and achievements in natural philosophy to a new level of clarity.
Blythâs explanation of Aristotleâs individual arguments, techniques of reasoning and overall strategy in Physics 8 aims to bring understanding of his method, doctrines and achievements in natural philosophy to a new level of clarity.
Dougal Blyth (Ph.D. Northwestern, 1990) is a Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Auckland. He has previously published articles and book chapters on Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Aristophanes and Menander and co-edited Power and Pleasure, Virtues and Vices (Auckland 2001).
Contents
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
The Purposes and Approach of This Volume
The Aim and Achievement of Physics Bk 8
Modern Philosophical Interest in PhysicsBk 8
Terminology and Symbolism in the Analyses
1. The Everlastingness of Movement
2. Defence against Three Objections
3. Redefined Inquiry into Movement and Rest
4. The Universality of a Cause of Movement
5. Unmoved First Causes of Movement
6. The Everlasting Causes of Movement
7. The Priority of Locomotion
8. The Unique Continuity of Rotation
9. The Priority of Rotation
10. The First Mover and First Moved Body Again
Physics 8: Complete Translation
Analytic Subdivision of Chapters
Bibliography
Subject Index
Index of Proper Names
Index Locorum
Index of Greek Terms
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
The Purposes and Approach of This Volume
The Aim and Achievement of Physics Bk 8
Modern Philosophical Interest in PhysicsBk 8
Terminology and Symbolism in the Analyses
1. The Everlastingness of Movement
2. Defence against Three Objections
3. Redefined Inquiry into Movement and Rest
4. The Universality of a Cause of Movement
5. Unmoved First Causes of Movement
6. The Everlasting Causes of Movement
7. The Priority of Locomotion
8. The Unique Continuity of Rotation
9. The Priority of Rotation
10. The First Mover and First Moved Body Again
Physics 8: Complete Translation
Analytic Subdivision of Chapters
Bibliography
Subject Index
Index of Proper Names
Index Locorum
Index of Greek Terms
Philosophers, scholars and students of Aristotle and later ancient philosophy, including particularly cosmology, ancient metaphysics and natural philosophy, and historians of science and informal philosophical logic, and of the intellectual achievements of the ancient world.