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The first translation into English of this commentary, Philoponus explains Aristotle's account of place to elementary students.

In the chapters discussed in this section of "Philoponus' Physics commentary" Aristotle explores a range of questions about the basic structure of reality, the nature of prime matter, the principles of change, the relation between form and matter, and the issue of whether things can come into being out of nothing, and if so, in what sense that is true. Philoponus' commentaries do not merely report and explain Aristotle and the other thinkers whom Aristotle is discussing. They are also the philosophical work of an independent thinker in the Neoplatonic tradition. Philoponus has his own, occasionally idiosyncratic, views on a number of important issues, and he sometimes disagrees with other teachers whose views he has encountered perhaps in written texts, and sometimes in oral delivery. A number of distinctive passages of philosophical importance occur in this part of Book 1, in which we see Philoponus at work on issues in physics and cosmology, as well as logic and metaphysics.
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• Preface 20th Symposium Aristotelicum List of Participants (Delphi, 26 July - 2 August 2014) Symposium Aristotelicum Carlo Natali: Introduction: Some general remarks on Aristotle's Phys. I 1: Stephen Menn: Physics I 1: The path to the principles 2: Michel Crubellier: Physics I 2: Looking for a starting-point. The Eleatic paradox put to good use 3: Diana Quarantotto: Physics I 3: Towards the principles. Resolving the Eleatics' arguments for absolute monism 4: Gabor Betegh: Physics I 4: One and many 5: Sylvain Delcomminette: Physics I 5: Principles and contraries 6: Andreas Anagnostopoulos: Physics I 6: A third and underlying principle 7: Benjamin Morison: Physics I 7,
• part 1: The complexity of the subject in a change 8: Hendrik Lorenz: Physics I 7,
• part 2: The principles of natural things. Two or threea 9: Mariska Leunissen: Physics I 8: The route to solving the Eleatic puzzle 10: Sarah Broadie: Physics I 9: Responding to the Platonists Bibliography Index of Names Index Locorum.
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The volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this nineteenth volume, eleven distinguished scholars of ancient philosophy provide a running commentary on the first book of Aristotle's Physics, a central treatise of the Aristotelian corpus that aims at knowledge of the principles of physical change. Along with the general introduction, the ten chapters together comment on the entirety of the Aristotelian text and discuss the philosophical issues that are raised in it in detail. Aristotle is shown to be in dialogue with the divergent doctrines of earlier philosophers, namely with the Eleatics' monism, with Anaxagoras' theory of mixture, and finally with the Platonist dyadism that posits the two principles of Form and the Great and Small. Aristotle uses critical examination of his predecessors' views as the basis for formulating his own theory of the principles of natural things, which are fundamental for the entire Aristotelian study of the natural world. He provides his own solution to the problem of coming-to-be and passing-away by distinguishing between coming in actuality and in potentiality. Comprehensive analysis of Aristotle's doctrines and arguments, as well as critical discussion of rival interpretations, will make this volume a valuable resource for scholars of Aristotle.
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• Aristotle on the principles of change in physics I
• Aristotle on the transmutation of the elements in De generatione et corruptione I. 1-4
• Aristotle's theory of matter
• Aristotle on teleology in nature
• Aristotle's theory of form
• Aristotle on the Eleatics in physics I. 2-3
• Aristotle, Zeno, and the potential infinite
• A note on Aristotle's account of place
• Aristotle's account of time
• Aristotle on continuity in physics VI.

• 1. Aristotle on the principles of change in Physics I
• 2. Transmutation of the Elements in De Generatione et Corruptione 1.1-4
• 3. Aristotle's Theory of Matter
• 4. Aristotle on Teleology in Nature
• 5. Aristotle's Theory of Form
• 6. Aristotle on the Eleatics in Physics I, 2-3
• 7. Aristotle, Zeno, and the Potential Infinite
• 8. Note on Aristotle's Account of Place
• 9. Aristotle's Account of Time
• 10. Aristotle on Continuity in Physics VI.
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Space, Time, Matter, and Form collects ten of David Bostock's essays on themes from Aristotle's Physics, four of them published here for the first time. The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of the Physics, centred on notions of matter and form, and the idea of substance as what persists through change. They also range over other of Aristotle's scientific works, such as his biology and psychology and the account of change in his De Generatione et Corruptione. The volume's remaining essays examine themes in later books of the Physics, including infinity, place, time, and continuity. Bostock argues that Aristotle's views on these topics are of real interest in their own right, independent of his notions of substance, form, and matter; they also raise some pressing problems of interpretation, which these essays seek to resolve.
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• t. 1. Introduction
• t. 2. Quaestiones (L. I-L. IIII)
• t. 3. Quaestiones (L. IV-L. VIII).

• Preface 20th Symposium Aristotelicum List of Participants (Delphi, 26 July - 2 August 2014) Symposium Aristotelicum Carlo Natali: Introduction: Some general remarks on Aristotle's Phys. I 1: Stephen Menn: Physics I 1: The path to the principles 2: Michel Crubellier: Physics I 2: Looking for a starting-point. The Eleatic paradox put to good use 3: Diana Quarantotto: Physics I 3: Towards the principles. Resolving the Eleatics' arguments for absolute monism 4: Gabor Betegh: Physics I 4: One and many 5: Sylvain Delcomminette: Physics I 5: Principles and contraries 6: Andreas Anagnostopoulos: Physics I 6: A third and underlying principle 7: Benjamin Morison: Physics I 7,
• part 1: The complexity of the subject in a change 8: Hendrik Lorenz: Physics I 7,
• part 2: The principles of natural things. Two or threea 9: Mariska Leunissen: Physics I 8: The route to solving the Eleatic puzzle 10: Sarah Broadie: Physics I 9: Responding to the Platonists Bibliography Index of Names Index Locorum.
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The volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this nineteenth volume, eleven distinguished scholars of ancient philosophy provide a running commentary on the first book of Aristotle's Physics, a central treatise of the Aristotelian corpus that aims at knowledge of the principles of physical change. Along with the general introduction, the ten chapters together comment on the entirety of the Aristotelian text and discuss the philosophical issues that are raised in it in detail. Aristotle is shown to be in dialogue with the divergent doctrines of earlier philosophers, namely with the Eleatics' monism, with Anaxagoras' theory of mixture, and finally with the Platonist dyadism that posits the two principles of Form and the Great and Small. Aristotle uses critical examination of his predecessors' views as the basis for formulating his own theory of the principles of natural things, which are fundamental for the entire Aristotelian study of the natural world. He provides his own solution to the problem of coming-to-be and passing-away by distinguishing between coming in actuality and in potentiality. Comprehensive analysis of Aristotle's doctrines and arguments, as well as critical discussion of rival interpretations, will make this volume a valuable resource for scholars of Aristotle.
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For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences This 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 discussions of 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 extensive notes explain the general structure of each section of the book and shed light on particular problems. This book is intended for students of Classics, Ancient Philosophy, History of Science, Philosophy of Science.
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Sachs's translation and commentary rescue Aristotle's text from the rigid, pedantic, and misleading versions that have until now obscured his thought. Thanks to Sachs's superb guidance, the Physics comes alive as a profound dialectical inquiry whose insights into the enduring questions about nature, cause, change, time, and the 'infinite' are still pertinent today. Using such guided studies in class has been exhilarating both for myself and my students." - Leon R. Kass, The Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago Aristotle's Physics is the only complete and coherent book we have from the ancient world in which a thinker of the first rank seeks to say something about nature as a whole. For centuries, Aristotle's inquiry into the causes and conditions of motion and rest dominated science and philosophy. To understand the intellectual assumptions of a powerful world view-and the roots of the Scientific Revolution-reading Aristotle is critical. Yet existing translations of Aristotle's Physics have made it difficult to understand either Aristotle's originality or the lasting value of his work. In this volume in the Masterworks of Discovery series, Joe Sachs provides a new plain-spoken English translation of all of Aristotle's classic treatise and accompanies it with a long interpretive introduction, a running explication of the text, and a helpful glossary. He succeeds brilliantly in fulfilling the aim of this innovative series: to give the general reader the tools to read and understand a masterwork of scientific discovery.
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