On Aristotle's "On the heavens 1.10-12"

On Aristotle's "On the heavens 1.10-12"

Aristotle. De caelo. Liber 1.10-12
Cosmology -- Early works to 1800
Cosmology, Ancient

"In these three chapters of On the Heavens, Aristotle argues that the universe in ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius's commentary there is a battle between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens Simplicius partly preserves." "Simplicius's rival, the Christian Philoponus, had conducted a parallel battle in his Against Proclus, but had taken the side of Alexander against Proclus and other Platonists, arguing that Plato's Timaeus gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius takes the Platonist side, denying that Plato intended a beginning. The origin to which Plato refers is, according to Simplicius, not a temporal origin, but the divine cause that produces the world without beginning."--Jacket.

Simplicius, of Cilicia

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press

translated by R.J. Hankinson

Series: Ancient commentators on Aristotle

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