Simplicious On Aristotle. Physics 6. Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Hardback. First Edition. Translated by David Konstan. Book Six of Aristotle's Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotloe at his best. It contains his attack on atomism, which forced subsequent Greeks and Islamic atomists to reshape their views entirely. it also elaborates Zeno's paradoxes of motion and the famous paradoxes of stopping and starting. This is the first translation into any modern language of Simplicius' commentary on Book Six. Sumplicius, the greates ancient authority on Aristotle's physics whose works have survived to the present, 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 1300 pages in the original Greek, preserve not only a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle but also fragements of lost works by other thinkers, including both the Presocratic philosophers and such Aristotalians as Eudemus, Theophrastuc and Alexander. The Physics contains some of Aristotle's best and most enduring work, and Simplicius' commentaries are essential to an understanding of it. This volume makes the commentary on Book Six accessible at last to all scholars, whether or not they know classical Greek. It will indispensable for students of classic philosophy, and especially of Aristotle, as well as for those interested in the philosophical thought of late antiquity. It will also be welcomed by students of the history of ideas and philosophers interested in problems of mathematics and motion. 181 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…