Philoponus

  • Philoponus: Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World
    By Christian Wildberg

    The Iamblichus fragments are collected in Greek by Bent Dalsgaard Larsen, Jamblique de Chalcis, Exégète et Philosophe (Aarhus 1972), vol.2. Most are taken from Simplicius, and will accordingly be translated in due course.

  • Philoponus: On Aristotle On the Intellect (de Anima 3.4-8)
    By William Charlton

    (Thomas Taylor); Proclus in Parm. ... Taylor, The Works of Plato, 5 vols. (1804). ... 37 For Alexander's treatment of the Stoics, see Robert B. Todd, Alexander of Aphrodisias on Stoic Physics (Leiden 1976), 24-9.

  • Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius
    By J.O. Urmson, Paul Lettinck

    To justify this thesis we ought to assume that atoms are always moving parallel. But Alexander ignores the swerve which is responsible for their inclination, a notion missing in the letters of Epicurus (though see Ep ...

  • Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.10-14
    By , Philoponus

    Simplicium in Phys. 708,22-709,13, translated in Richard Sorabji, The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD, A Sourcebook, vol. 2, ch. 11 f1. 9. Galen and Themistius ap. Simplicium in Phys. 718,13-719,18, translated in Sourcebook, ...

  • Philoponus: Against Proclus on the Eternity of the World 12-18
    By , Philoponus

    If, then, every species must have everlastingness (for this is the image of eternity),234 consider what everlastingness is – whether (a) existing for an infinite time in both temporal directions, or whether (b) it includes having a ...

  • Philoponus: On Aristotle Categories 1–5 with Philoponus
    By Daniel King, John Harris, Riin Sirkel

    This edition explores these questions of provenance, alongside the context, meaning and implications of Philoponus' work.

  • Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 1.1-8
    By , Philoponus

    ... Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, Clarendon Aristotle Series, 2nd edn, Oxford. Barnes, J., Bobzien, S., Flannery, K., Ierodiakonou, K. (1991), Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.1-7, London/ Ithaca. Bonitz, H ...

  • Philoponus: On Aristotle on the Soul 1.3-5
    By John Philoponus, Jean Philopon

    Rejects accounts of soul which define it as moving, as cognitive, or in physical terms.

  • Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.4-9
    By , Philoponus

    Philoponus,. came into being) or from non-being (for it is impossible for anything to come into being from something ... coming into being. For if a thing were not capable of coming to be before it came to be, it would not come into being ...