Name: Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 4 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (en Inglés)
SKU: 63710884
Price: 211.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Themistius

portada Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 4 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (en Inglés)

Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 4 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Bristol Classical Press

Autor

Themistius

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

162

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780715631997

Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 4 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (en Inglés)

Themistius (Autor) · Bristol Classical Press · Tapa Dura

Libro Nuevo Importado

Envío: 16 a 23 días háb.

$ 383.63$ 211.00

-45%

Costos de importación incluídos en el precio ✅

Libro Nuevo

Quedan más de 100 unidades

$ 211.00

Llega entre el 15 Sep y el 28 Sep a Quito, Pichincha. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 4 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (en Inglés)"

Physics Book 4 is one of Aristotle's most interesting works, discussing place, time and vacuum. Themistius was a fourth-century AD orator and essayist, not only a philosopher, and he thought that only paraphrases of Aristotle were needed, because there were already such comprehensive commentaries. Nonetheless, his paraphrastic commentaries are full of innovative comment. According to Aristotle, there is no such thing as 3-dimensional space. A thing's exactly-fitting place is a surface, the inner surface of its immediate surroundings. One problem that this created was that the outermost stars, in Aristotle's view, have no surroundings, and so no place. Themistius suggests that we might think instead of the neighbouring bodies which they surround as providing their place. Aristotle saw time as something countable, and concluded that it depends for its existence on that of conscious beings to do the counting. Themistius is in the minority among commentators in disagreeing. Themistius concurs with Aristotle in denying the existence of vacuum. We cannot think that a space formerly empty of body penetrates right through a body inserted into it. If one extension could penetrate another, says Themistius, a body could penetrate a body, because bodies occupy places solely in virtue of being extended.