Tag: Simplicius

Free Download J.O. Urmson, "Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 5 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)"
English | 2014 | pages: 206 | ISBN: 1472558464, 0715627651 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle’s Physics , lived in the sixth century A. D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle’s works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle.

Free Download Golitsis Pantelis, "Les Commentaires de Simplicius et de Jean Philopon à la "Physique" d’Aristote: Tradition et Innovation"
Français | 2008 | pages: 316 | ISBN: 3110195410 | PDF | 1,6 mb
In Greek Late Antiquity philosophy defined itself above all through the interpretation of authoritative texts such as Plato’s dialogues or the treatises of Aristotle. This work looks at the last Late Antique commentaries on Aristotle’s Physics, the pagan Simplicius and the Christian Philoponus (both 6th cent. AD). Golitsis demonstrates how differently the two contemporaries interpreted the philosophical tradition and how this led them to deduce different routes to finding the truth.