John Philoponus: Philoponus | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781780933597 | Philoponus | Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World | Buch

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Beschreibung

Philoponus' treatise Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World, an attack on Aristotle's astronomy and theology is concerned mainly with the eternity and divinity of the fifth element, or 'quintessence', of which Aristotle took the stars to be composed. Pagans and Christians were divided on whether the world had a beginning, and on whether a belief that the heavens were divine was a mark of religion. Philoponus claimed on behalf of Christianity that the universe was not eternal. His most spectacular arguments, where wrung paradox out of the pagan belief in an infinite past, have been wrongly credited by historians of science to a period 700 years later.
The treatise was to influence Islamic, Jewish, Byzantine and Latin thought, though the fifth element was defended against Philoponus even beyond the time of Copernicus. The influence of the treatise was not easy to trace before the fragments were assembled. Dr. Wildberg has brought them together for the first time and provided a summary which makes coherent sense of the whole. He has also studied a Syriac fragment, which reveals that the treatise originally contained an explicitly theological section on the Christian expectation of a new heaven and a new earth.

Über den Autor

Christian Wildberg

Zusammenfassung

The translation is supplemented by an Introduction, extensive Notes and Indexes

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Textual Emendations
Translation
Notes
Bibliography
English-Greek Glossary
Greek-English Index
Index of Passages Cited
General Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781780933597
ISBN-10:	1780933592
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Philoponus, John
Redaktion:	Griffin, Michael
Übersetzung:	Wildberg, Christian
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	John Philoponus
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.04.2014
Gewicht:	0,298 kg