Author 294
Doppelte Entelecheia: Das Menschen­bild in “Simplikios”’ Kommentar zu Aristoteles’ De anima, 2003
By: Perkams, Matthias
Title Doppelte Entelecheia: Das Menschen­bild in “Simplikios”’ Kommentar zu Aristoteles’ De anima
Type Article
Language German
Date 2003
Journal Elenchos
Volume 24
Issue 1
Pages 57-91
Categories no categories
Author(s) Perkams, Matthias
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Einen Versuch zur systematischen Fruchtbarmachung des aristotelischen Konzeptes der entelecheia in einer neuplatomschen Seelenlehre liefert der Kommentar zu De anima, der uns unter dem Namen des Simplikios überliefert ist. Ich möchte im Fol­genden zeigen, dass der Kommentator bemüht ist, den entelecheia- Begriff in seiner systematischen Tragweite aufzunehmen und ihn auf eine Weise fruchtbar zu machen, die über eine einfache Zurückwei­sung des Konzeptes von Alexander von Aphrodisias, wie man sie beim zweifelsohne echten Simplikios findet, hinaus geht. [Introduction, p. 61]

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Quelques exemples de scholies dans la tradition arabe des "Éléments" d'Euclide, 2003
By: Djebbar, Ahmed
Title Quelques exemples de scholies dans la tradition arabe des "Éléments" d'Euclide
Type Article
Language French
Date 2003
Journal Revue d'histoire des sciences
Volume 56
Issue 2
Pages 293-321
Categories no categories
Author(s) Djebbar, Ahmed
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Early Reactions to Plato’s Timaeus: polemic and exegesis in Theophrastus and Epicurus, 2003
By: Baltussen, Han, Sharples, Robert W. (Ed.), Sheppard, Anne D. (Ed.)
Title Early Reactions to Plato’s Timaeus: polemic and exegesis in Theophrastus and Epicurus
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2003
Published in Ancient Approaches to Plato's Timaeus
Pages 49-71
Categories no categories
Author(s) Baltussen, Han
Editor(s) Sharples, Robert W. , Sheppard, Anne D.
Translator(s)
We are reasonably well informed about what might justly be thought of as the commentary tradition of the late Hellenistic and late antique period. In this series of papers on the theme ‘Plato’s Timaeus and the Commentary Tradition’ an obvious choice of topic has been to discuss the works of authors who explicitly declare to be commenting upon or clarifying the text o f an author. Most papers in this volume have therefore justly seen it as their task to clarify the interaction between one commentator and the Timaeus. My perspective is slightly different. Commentary as we usually see it must have had its precursors in some form or other. As it happens, we have some evidence related to the Timaeus which makes this a reasonable assumption. I therefore want to look at two thinkers whose interpretative efforts occur at the beginnings of the ‘commentary tradition’ . Here things are less clear and well-defined in that at this end o f the scale we are dealing with the emergence o f exegesis. This means that certain fundamental assumptions - eg. what a commentary or a commentator is - would no longer have an obvious value as starting points and that important questions about the interaction between authors and texts (such as ‘what is a commentary?’, ‘what form did the interpretation of texts take?’ or ‘when do commentaries emerge?’) require a fresh look. [p. 49]

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Why Does Plato's Element Theory Conflict With Mathematics (Arist. Cael. 299a2-6)?, 2003
By: Kouremenos, Theokritos
Title Why Does Plato's Element Theory Conflict With Mathematics (Arist. Cael. 299a2-6)?
Type Article
Language English
Date 2003
Journal Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
Volume 146
Issue 3/4
Pages 328-345
Categories no categories
Author(s) Kouremenos, Theokritos
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In Cael. 3.1 Aristotle argues against those who posit that all bodies are generated because they are made from, and dissolve into, planes, namely Plato and perhaps other members of the Academy who subscribed to the Timaeus physics (cf. Simplicius, In Cael. 561,8-11 [Heiberg]). ]). In his Timaeus Plato assigns to each of the traditional Empedoclean elements a regular polyhedron: the tetra- hedron or pyramid to fire, the cube to earth, the octahedron to air and the icosahedron to water... [p. 328]

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Der philosophische Unterrichtsbetrieb in der römischen Kaiserzeit, 2003
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut
Title Der philosophische Unterrichtsbetrieb in der römischen Kaiserzeit
Type Article
Language German
Date 2003
Journal Rhein. Museum
Volume 146
Issue 1
Pages 49–71
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Der Text beschreibt den Zustand des philosophischen Unterrichts während der römischen Kaiserzeit. Obwohl die bekannten Philosophenschulen in Athen nicht mehr existierten, hatten die vier philosophischen Richtungen des Hellenismus dennoch Verbreitung gefunden und wurden in privaten Schulen unterrichtet. Diese Schulen waren jedoch meist kurzlebig und hingen vom Erfolg des Lehrers ab. Philosophie wurde an den griechischen Gymnasien nicht gelehrt, stattdessen konzentrierte man sich auf Grammatik und Rhetorik. Im lateinischen Bereich führten enge Beziehungen führender Römer zu stoischen Philosophen zur Verbreitung der Lehren. Der Philosophieunterricht begann meist erst nach der Pubertät, und das Alter spielte eine wichtige Rolle bei der Seelenleitung. Das Greisenalter wurde als optimal angesehen, da der körperliche Verfall der freien Betätigung des Geistes entgegenkomme. Das Bild des philosophischen Unterrichtsbetriebes in der Kaiserzeit war somit sehr komplex. [introduction/conclusion]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Categories 1–4’, 2003
By: Chase, Michael (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Categories 1–4’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2003
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s) Chase, Michael
Translator(s) Chase, Michael(Chase, Michael ) ,
Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism. In his Categories, Aristotle divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories of Substance, Quantity, Relative, Quality and so on. Simplicius starts with a survey of previous commentators, and an introductory set of questions about Aristotle's philosophy and about the Categories in particular. The commentator, he says, needs to present Plato and Aristotle as in harmony on most things. Why are precisely ten categories named, given that Plato did with fewer distinctions? We have a survey of views on this. And where in the scheme of categories would one fit a quality that defines a substance - under substance or under quality? In his own commentary, Porphyry suggested classifying a defining quality as something distinct, a substantial quality, but others objected that this would constitute an eleventh. The most persistent question dealt with here is whether the categories classify words, concepts, or things. [offical abstract]

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Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle, De Caelo 2.10-12: An Annotated Translation, Part 1, 2003
By: Bowen, Alan C., Simplicius
Title Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle, De Caelo 2.10-12: An Annotated Translation, Part 1
Type Article
Language English
Date 2003
Journal SCIAMVS: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Volume 4
Pages 23-58
Categories no categories
Author(s) Bowen, Alan C. , Simplicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
If there is a single text that has proven to be the bedrock for the modern understanding of early Greek astronomy, it is Simplicius’ commentary on book 2 chapter 12 of Aristotle’s treatise, De caelo. Simplicius’ remarks, which are effectively an elaboration of what he supposes Aristotle to mean in Meta. Λ 8, are almost always accepted as gospel in their broad outlines. I have written at length elsewhere that Simplicius’ comments on De caelo 2.12 do not constitute an account of what Aristotle meant in Meta. Λ 8 that we should accept today as properly historical. That scholars today persist in reading Meta. Λ 8 and other early texts as indicating knowledge of the planetary stations and retrogradations is a puzzle. One only wishes, when these scholars have elaborated their interpretations of Meta. Λ 8 and of the other related texts written before the late second century that concern the planetary motions, that they not stop here as if their work as historians were done. Obviously, it will not be enough if they simply adduce relevant testimonia by later ancient writers. Not only are these testimonia few in number and date to a time after the characteristic planetary motions were duly understood, they typically prove on critical examination to be either ambiguous or anachronistic in the same way as Simplicius’ account is. Consequently, any appeal to such testimonia without critical argument in defense of their historical validity is pointless. Indeed, the burden must fall on these scholars to demonstrate that Meta. Λ 8 and the other early texts must be read in this way. For, absent such proof, all one has is the fallacy of imputing to a writer the perceived consequences of what he writes. Given the exigencies of publication, this annotated translation will come in two parts. The first, presented here, is devoted to Simplicius’ commentary on De caelo 2.10–11. These chapters in the De caelo raise stock issues in astronomy; and it is valuable, I think, for readers interested in Simplicius’ account of planetary theory in 2.12 to see and assess just how he deals with them. Indeed, not only does Simplicius’ commentary on 2.10–11 show him drawing on a tradition of technical writing for novices and philosophers that goes back to Geminus and Cleomedes, it also shows him going astray on fundamental points in elementary mathematics. And this is surely important for our interpretation of his commentary on 2.12. The annotation itself is, as I have said, intended to assist the reader with information that may be needed to make sense of the text. My main aim is to allow access to Simplicius that is as little encumbered by my interpretative intrusion as is feasible, since my hope in this publication is that the reader will confront Simplicius for himself by himself, so far as this is possible in a translation. [introduction]

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Aristotle and some of his Commentators on the Timaeus’ Receptacle, 2003
By: Gregory, Andrew, Sharples, Robert W. (Ed.), Sheppard, Anne D. (Ed.)
Title Aristotle and some of his Commentators on the Timaeus’ Receptacle
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2003
Published in Ancient Approaches to Plato's Timaeus
Pages 29-47
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gregory, Andrew
Editor(s) Sharples, Robert W. , Sheppard, Anne D.
Translator(s)
The nature of the receptacle, presented at Timaeus 48e-53b, is controversial. It is unclear whether the receptacle is supposed to be matter, or whether it is supposed to be space, or whether it is in some way both matter and space. Plato seems to intend some reform of the way in which we refer to the phenomena, but the nature of that reform is far from clear.1 Can the evidence of Aristotle help us here? Aristotle and some of his commentators have some interesting and significant things to say about the receptacle and its contents, more perhaps than is generally recognised. [introduction, p. 29]

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Leucippus, Democritus and the οὐ μᾶλλον Principle: An Examination of Theophrastus Phys.Op. Fr. 8, 2002
By: Schofield, Malcom
Title Leucippus, Democritus and the οὐ μᾶλλον Principle: An Examination of Theophrastus Phys.Op. Fr. 8
Type Article
Language English
Date 2002
Journal Phronesis
Volume 47
Issue 3
Pages 253–263
Categories no categories
Author(s) Schofield, Malcom
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This paper is a piece of detective work. Starting from an obvious excrescence inthe transmitted text of Simplicius's treatment of the foundations of Presocraticatomism near the beginning of his Physicscommentary, it excavates a Theophrasteancorrection to Aristotle's tendency to lump Leucippus and Democritus together: Theophrastus made application of the οὐ μᾶλλον principle in the sphere of ontol-ogy an innovation by Democritus. Along the way it shows Simplicius reorderinghis Theophrastean source in his efforts to nd material which will strengthen thecontrast between Leucippus's atomism and Eleatic metaphysics. And it arguesthat in doing so he all but obliterates TheophrastusÕs attempt to point up theDemocritean credentials of the οὐ μᾶλλον principle.

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The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages: A Doxographic Approach, 2002
By: Gersh, Stephen (Ed.), Hoenen, Maarten J. F. M. (Ed.)
Title The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages: A Doxographic Approach
Type Edited Book
Language undefined
Date 2002
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher de Gruyter
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Gersh, Stephen , Hoenen, Maarten J. F. M.
Translator(s)
Das Handbuch beschreitet neue Wege in der Schilderung der komplexen Geschichte jener geistigen Strömungen, die gemeinhin unter der Bezeichnung 'platonisch' bzw. 'neuplatonisch' zusammengefaßt werden. Es behandelt in chronologischer Folge die bedeutendsten philosophischen Denkrichtungen innerhalb dieser Tradition. Die Beiträge untersuchen die wichtigsten platonischen Begriffe und ihre semantischen Implikationen, erläutern die mit ihnen verbundenen philosophischen und theologischen Ansprüche, legen die Quellen der Begriffe dar und stellen sie in den Kontext der auf sie rekurrierenden bzw. ihnen zuwiderlaufenden geistigen Traditionen. So entsteht ein lebhaftes Bild des intellektuellen Lebens im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit. Das Werk enthält Beiträge in englischer und deutscher Sprache. [Author's abstract]

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The Presocratics in the doxographical tradition. Sources, controversies, and current research, 2005
By: Baltussen, Han
Title The Presocratics in the doxographical tradition. Sources, controversies, and current research
Type Article
Language English
Date 2005
Journal Studia Humaniora Tartuensia
Volume 6
Issue 6
Pages 1-26
Categories no categories
Author(s) Baltussen, Han
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In this paper I present a synthetic overview of recent and ongoing research in the field of doxography, that is,  the  study  of  the  nature,  transmission  and  interrelations  of  sources  for  ancient  Greek  philosophy.  The  latest revisions of the theory of Hermann Diels (Doxographi Graeci 1879) regarding the historiography ought to be known more widely, as they still influence our understanding of the Presocratics and their reception. The scholarly study on the compilations of Greek philosophical views from Hellenistic and later periods has received a major boost by the first of a projected three-volume study by Mansfeld and Runia (1997). Taking their work as a firm basis I also describe my own work in this area and how it can be related to, and fitted into, this trend by outlining how two important sources for the historiography of Greek philosophy, Theo-phrastus (4th–3rd c. BCE) and Simplicius (early 6th c. AD) stand in a special relation to each other and form an important strand in the doxographical tradition. [Author's abstract]

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The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, 2014
By: Remes, Pauliina (Ed.), Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla (Ed.)
Title The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2014
Publication Place London – New York
Publisher Routledge
Series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Remes, Pauliina , Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla
Translator(s)
The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in ancient philosophy. An international team of scholars situates and re-evaluates Neoplatonism within the history of ancient philosophy and thought, and explores its influence on philosophical and religious schools worldwide. Over thirty chapters are divided into seven clear parts:

    (Re)sources, instruction and interaction
    Methods and Styles of Exegesis
    Metaphysics and Metaphysical Perspectives
    Language, Knowledge, Soul, and Self
    Nature: Physics, Medicine and Biology
    Ethics, Political Theory and Aesthetics
    The legacy of Neoplatonism.

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is a major reference source for all students and scholars in Neoplatonism and ancient philosophy, as well as researchers in the philosophy of science, ethics, aesthetics and religion. [author's abstract]

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The Soul never thinks withous a Phantasm: How platonic commentators interpret a controversal aristotelian Thesis, 2018
By: Steel, C., Strobel, Benedikt (Ed.)
Title The Soul never thinks withous a Phantasm: How platonic commentators interpret a controversal aristotelian Thesis
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2018
Published in Die Kunst der philosophischen Exegese bei den spätanitken Platon- und Aristoteles Kommentatoren. Akten der 15. Tagung der Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung vom 4. bis 6. Oktober 2012 in Trier
Pages 185-223
Categories no categories
Author(s) Steel, C.
Editor(s) Strobel, Benedikt
Translator(s)
There is undoubtedly a Platonic
motivation in the commentators’ refusal to accept Aristotle’s claim about the
connection of thinking with phantasms as universally valid. After all, it is even plausible that Aristotle was himself implicitly reacting against Plato’s view in Republic VI (510 C–511 C) that thinking – νόησις contrary to
διάνοια – is without images. However, even if their Platonic perspective is undeniable, the ancient commentators also have, as I hope to show, valuable
arguments to restrict Aristotle’s claim to some forms of knowledge.
In this contribution I will discuss the views of four commentators of late antiquity: Themistius, Ammonius (as reported by Philoponus), John Philoponus (in his lectures as reported by a student), and Priscian of Lydia (Pseudo-Simplicius). But before I turn to the commentators I have to recall briefly Plotinus, who was himself an intensive reader of the Aristotelian treatise On the Soul, but interpreted it in his own manner. [Introduction, pp. 187 f.]

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The Stoic Ontology of Geometrical Limits, 2009
By: Eunyoung Ju, Anna
Title The Stoic Ontology of Geometrical Limits
Type Article
Language English
Date 2009
Journal Phronesis
Volume 54
Issue 4/5
Pages 371-389
Categories no categories
Author(s) Eunyoung Ju, Anna
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Scholars have long recognised the interest of the Stoics' thought on geometrical limits, both 
as a specific topic in their physics and within the context of the school's ontological 
taxonomy. Unfortunately, insufficient textual evidence remains for us to reconstruct their 
discussion fully. The sources we do have on Stoic geometrical themes are highly polemical, 
tending to reveal a disagreement as to whether limit is to be understood as a mere concept, 
as a body or as an incorporeal. In my view, this disagreement held among the historical 
Stoics, rather than simply reflecting a doxographical divergence in transmission. This 
apparently Stoic disagreement has generated extensive debate, in which there is still no 
consensus as to a standard Stoic doctrine of limit. The evidence is thin, and little of it refers 
in detail to specific texts, especially from the school's founders. But in its overall features the 
evidence suggests that Posidonius and Cleomedes differed from their Stoic precursors on 
this topic. There are also grounds for believing that some degree of disagreement obtained 
between the early Stoics over the metaphysical status of shape. Assuming the Stoics did so 
disagree, the principal question in the scholarship on Stoic ontology is whether there were 
actually positions that might be called "standard" within Stoicism on the topic of limit. In 
attempting to answer this question, my discussion initially sets out to illuminate certain 
features of early Stoic thinking about limit, and then takes stock of the views offered by late 
Stoics, notably Posidonius and Cleomedes. Attention to Stoic arguments suggests that the 
school's founders developed two accounts of shape: on the one hand, as a thought-construct, 
and, on the other, as a body. In an attempt to resolve the crux bequeathed to them, the 
school's successors suggested that limits are incorporeal. While the authorship of this last 
notion cannot be securely identified on account of the absence of direct evidence, it may be 
traced back to Posidonius, and it went on to have subsequent influence on Stoic thinking, 
namely in Cleomedes' astronomy. [Author’s abstract]

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The Text Tradition of the 'Commentary On the Soul' Attributed to Simplicius, 2024
By: Steel, Carlos, Deckers, Daniel (Ed.), Brockmann, Christian (Ed.), Valente, Stefano (Ed.)
Title The Text Tradition of the 'Commentary On the Soul' Attributed to Simplicius
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2024
Published in Aristoteles-Kommentare und ihre Überlieferung. Wichtige Etappen von der Antike bis in die frühe Neuzeit
Pages 225-268
Categories no categories
Author(s) Steel, Carlos
Editor(s) Deckers, Daniel , Brockmann, Christian , Valente, Stefano
Translator(s)

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The Texts of Plato and Aristotle in the First Century BCE: Andronicus’ Canon, 2016
By: Hatzimichali, Myrto, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title The Texts of Plato and Aristotle in the First Century BCE: Andronicus’ Canon
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2016
Published in Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators
Pages 81-102
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hatzimichali, Myrto
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

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The Transformation of Plato and Aristotle, 2006
By: Sorabji, Richard, Tarrant, Harold (Ed.), Baltzly, Dirk (Ed.)
Title The Transformation of Plato and Aristotle
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2006
Published in Reading Plato in antiquity
Pages 185-193
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s) Tarrant, Harold , Baltzly, Dirk
Translator(s)
In  Neoplatonism,  though  not  in  Aristotelian ism,  Plato  and  Aristotle  are 
transformed  in  a  variety  of  different  ways.  The  transformation  is  partly 
driven  by  a  wish  to  harmonize  Plato  and  Aristotle,  but  only  partly.  There 
is  less  effort  to  harmonize  the  two  in  some  commentators  than  in  others, 
and  on  some  issues,  we  shall  see,  there  is  less  harmonization  among  our 
commentators  than  there  was  in  the  Middle  Platonism  of  an  earlier  period. 
Further,  the  transformation  of  views  is  driven  by  other  factors  too  besides 
harmonization. [p. 185]

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The Will and its Freedom: Epictetus and Simplicius on what is up to us, 2014
By: Wildberg, Christian, Destrée, Pierre (Ed.), Zingano, Marco (Ed.)
Title The Will and its Freedom: Epictetus and Simplicius on what is up to us
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2014
Published in What is up to us? Studies on Agency and Responsibility in Ancient Philosophy
Pages 329-350
Categories no categories
Author(s) Wildberg, Christian
Editor(s) Destrée, Pierre , Zingano, Marco
Translator(s)
The text explores the historical development of the concept of free will, drawing parallels with the evolution of understanding projectile motion. Three distinct periods are identified: an initial stage marked by a misunderstanding of projectile motion, where objects were thought to require continuous external motion; a second stage where the concept of "impetus" was introduced to explain forced motion at a distance; and a final stage, ushered in by Galileo, Descartes, and Newton, where the correct understanding of inertia emerged. The discovery of free will is compared to the discovery of the will as a distinct human faculty in late antiquity. Similar to the concept of impetus, the will is depicted as capable of being strong or weak and has significant influence over human actions. The philosophical discussion surrounding free will is likened to the debates on projectile motion, with various perspectives on its existence and nature. Some argue for the existence of free will, while others contend that it is unnecessary and incoherent. The text concludes by pointing out the need for a deeper understanding of the historical context and metaphysical assumptions underlying the concept of free will. It suggests that the concept of free will is a remnant of past intellectual certainty about metaphysical truths and may not be as morally neutral as commonly believed. The modern discussion on free will is encouraged to consider its historical development and potential implications more carefully. [introduction]

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The causality of the prime mover in Simplicius, 2020
By: Ross, Alberto
Title The causality of the prime mover in Simplicius
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2020
Published in Relectures néoplatoniciennes de la théologie d’Aristote
Pages 103-122
Categories no categories
Author(s) Ross, Alberto
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The dynamics of Aristotelian natural philosophy from Antiquity to the seventeenth century, 2002
By: Leijenhorst, Cees (Ed.), Lüthy, Christoph (Ed.), Thijssen, Johannes M. M. H. (Ed.)
Title The dynamics of Aristotelian natural philosophy from Antiquity to the seventeenth century
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2002
Publication Place Leiden – Boston – Köln
Publisher Brill
Series Medieval and early modern science
Volume 5
Categories no categories
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Editor(s) Leijenhorst, Cees , Lüthy, Christoph , Thijssen, Johannes M. M. H.
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