Aristotle's Physics
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780198720263
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780198720263
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joe Sachs
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780813521923
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aristotle's Physics is one of the least studied "great books"--physics has come to mean something entirely different than Aristotle's inquiry into nature, and stereotyped Medieval interpretations have buried the original text. Sach's translation is really the only one that I know of that attempts to take the reader back to the text itself. -- Leon Cass, University of Chicago
Author: Diana Quarantotto
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-11
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1107197783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth study of Physics I, the first book of Aristotle's foundational treatise on natural philosophy. While the text has inspired a rich scholarly literature, this is the first volume devoted solely to it to have been published for many years, and it includes a new translation of the Greek text. Book I introduces Aristotle's approach to topics such as matter and form, and discusses the fundamental problems of the study of natural science, examining the theories of previous thinkers including Parmenides. Leading experts provide fresh interpretations of key passages and raise new problems. The volume will appeal to scholars and students of ancient philosophy as well as to specialists working in the fields of philosophy and the history of science.
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780198240921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The eighth book of Aristotle's Physics is the culmination of his theory of nature. He discusses not just physics, but the origins of the universe and the metaphysical foundations of cosmology and physical science. He moves from the discussion of motion in the cosmos to the identification of a single source and regulating principle of all motion, and so argues for the existence of a first 'unmoved mover'. Daniel Graham offers a clear, accurate new translation of this key text in the history of Western thought, and accompanies the translation with a careful philosophical commentary to guide the reader towards an understanding of the wealth of important and influential arguments and ideas that Aristotle puts forward.
Author: David Bolotin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780791435526
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Argues that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core and shows that Aristotle's genuine views have not been refuted by modern science and still deserve serious attention.
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780192835864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciencesThis book begins with an analysis of change, which introduces us to Aristotle's central concepts of matter and form, before moving on to an account of explanation in the sciences and a defence of teleological explanation. Aristotle then turns to detailed, important, and often ingenious discussionsof notions such as infinity, place, void, time, and conintuity. He ends with an argument designed to show that the changes we experience in the world demand as their cause a single unchanging cause of all change, namely God.This is the first complete translation of Physics into English since 1930. It presents Aristotle's thought accurately, while at the same time simplifying and expanding the often crabbed and elliptical style of the original, so that it is very much easier to read. A lucid introduction and extensivenotes explain the general structure of each section of the book and shed light on particular problems.
Author: Mariska Leunissen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 110703146X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle.
Author: Ursula Coope
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2005-10-20
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0191530123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.
Author: Tony Roark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-03
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1139497286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aristotle's definition of time as 'a number of motion with respect to the before and after' has been branded as patently circular by commentators ranging from Simplicius to W. D. Ross. In this book Tony Roark presents an interpretation of the definition that renders it not only non-circular, but also worthy of serious philosophical scrutiny. He shows how Aristotle developed an account of the nature of time that is inspired by Plato while also thoroughly bound up with Aristotle's sophisticated analyses of motion and perception. When Aristotle's view is properly understood, Roark argues, it is immune to devastating objections against the possibility of temporal passage articulated by McTaggart and other 20th-century philosophers. Roark's novel and fascinating interpretation of Aristotle's temporal theory will appeal to those interested in Aristotle, ancient philosophy and the philosophy of time.