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- catalog abstract ""Aristotle's Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. Aristotle argues that things in motion need to be moved by something other than themselves - he rejects Plato's self-movers. On pain of regress, there must be an unmoved mover. If this unmoved mover is to cause motion eternally, it needs infinite power. It cannot, then, be a body, since bodies, being of finite size, cannot house infinite power. The unmoved mover is therefore an incorporeal God." "Simplicius reveals that his teacher, Ammonius, harmonized Aristotle with Plato to counter Christian charges of pagan disagreement, by making Aristotle's God a cause not only of beginningless movement, but also of beginningless existence of the universe. Eternal existence, no less than eternal motion, calls for an infinite, and hence incorporeal, force. This anti-Christian interpretation turned Aristotle's God from a thinker into a certain kind of Creator, and so helped to make Aristotle's God acceptable to Saint Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10.".
- catalog alternative "On Aristotle's Physics 8.6-10. English".
- catalog alternative "Simplicius on Aristotle's "Physics 8.6-10"".
- catalog contributor b12209327.
- catalog contributor b12209328.
- catalog contributor b12209329.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Aristotle's Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. Aristotle argues that things in motion need to be moved by something other than themselves - he rejects Plato's self-movers. On pain of regress, there must be an unmoved mover. If this unmoved mover is to cause motion eternally, it needs infinite power. It cannot, then, be a body, since bodies, being of finite size, cannot house infinite power. The unmoved mover is therefore an incorporeal God." "Simplicius reveals that his teacher, Ammonius, harmonized Aristotle with Plato to counter Christian charges of pagan disagreement, by making Aristotle's God a cause not only of beginningless movement, but also of beginningless existence of the universe. Eternal existence, no less than eternal motion, calls for an infinite, and hence incorporeal, force. This anti-Christian interpretation turned Aristotle's God from a thinker into a certain kind of Creator, and so helped to make Aristotle's God acceptable to Saint Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-183) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Textual Emendations -- Translation -- Appendix: Notes on the text of Aristotle's Physics.".
- catalog extent "247 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0801437873 (cloth)".
- catalog isPartOf "Ancient commentators on Aristotle.".
- catalog isPartOf "[Ancient commentators on Aristotle]".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "Glossary and Index in English and Greek.".
- catalog language "eng gre grc".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog subject "509.021 21".
- catalog subject "Aristotle. Physics. Book 8.".
- catalog subject "Motion Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Physics Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Q151 .S4513 2001".
- catalog subject "Science, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Simplicius, of Cilicia. Commentarii in octo Aristotelis Physicae auscultationis libros.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Textual Emendations -- Translation -- Appendix: Notes on the text of Aristotle's Physics.".
- catalog title "On Aristotle's Physics 8.6-10 / Simplicius ; translated by Richard McKirahan.".
- catalog title "On Aristotle's Physics 8.6-10. English".
- catalog title "Simplicius on Aristotle's "Physics 8.6-10"".
- catalog type "text".