{"_index":"sire","_type":"_doc","_id":"842","_score":null,"_source":{"id":842,"authors_free":[{"id":1246,"entry_id":842,"agent_type":null,"is_normalised":null,"person_id":340,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Todd, Robert B.","free_first_name":"Robert B.","free_last_name":"Todd","norm_person":{"id":340,"first_name":"Robert B.","last_name":"Todd","full_name":"Todd, Robert B.","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":null,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/129460788","viaf_url":"","db_url":"","from_claudius":null}}],"entry_title":"Some Concepts in Physical Theory in John Philoponus' Aristotelian Commentaries","main_title":{"title":"Some Concepts in Physical Theory in John Philoponus' Aristotelian Commentaries"},"abstract":"The Alexandrian commentator of the sixth century A. D., John Philoponus, \r\nis arguably the most interesting of Aristotle's Greek exegetes. He is not the \r\nmost orthodox, since his commentaries are variously infused with ideas drawn \r\nfrom neoplatonism, and from Christian philosophy.1 But he more than \r\ncompensates for exegetical infidelity by his originality in challenging and \r\nenlarging Aristotelianism, particularly in the area of physical theory. This \r\nachievement is well understood thanks to recent studies by Sambursky, \r\nWieland, and Wolff, that have dealt with such topics as his theory of light, his \r\nconcept of mass, his dynamics, his theory of space, and his polemic against the \r\nAristotelian belief in the eternity of the universe.2 In the present paper I shall \r\ndiscuss other ideas from the same general area that are perhaps less strikingly \r\noriginal, but that nonetheless illustrate well Philoponus' method of working \r\nwithin the confines of Aristotelian exegesis, whilst injecting his own philoso \r\nphical assumptions. [p. 151]","btype":3,"date":"1980","language":"English","online_url":"","online_resources":"https:\/\/uni-koeln.sciebo.de\/s\/p7CzPV8ZEV2uRso","doi_url":null,"categories":[],"authors":[{"id":340,"full_name":"Todd, Robert B.","role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"}}],"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":842,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"Archiv f\u00fcr Begriffsgeschichte","volume":"24","issue":"2","pages":"151-170"}},"sort":["Some Concepts in Physical Theory in John Philoponus' Aristotelian Commentaries"]}