Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.5-9
Aristotle argues in On the Heavens 1.5-7 that there can be no infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be more than one physical world. As a corollary in 1.9, he infers that there is no place, vacuum or time beyond the outermost stars. As one argument in favour of a single world, he argues that his four elements: earth, air, fire and water, have only one natural destination apiece. Moreover they accelerate as they approach it and acceleration cannot be unlimited. However, the Neoplatonist Simplicius, who wrote the commentary in the sixth century AD (here translated into English), tells us that this whole world view was to be reje…
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Weitere Autoren: Hankinson, R. J. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4725-0111-0
- EAN: 9781472501110
- Produktnummer: 17035771
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'735 KB
Über den Autor
Ian Mueller was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
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