Philoponus: On Aristotle "On Coming to be and Perishing by Philoponus, Inna Kupreeva

By Philoponus, Inna Kupreeva

Till the release of this sequence over ten years in the past, the 15,000 volumes of the traditional Greek commentators on Aristotle, written almost always among 2 hundred and six hundred advert, constituted the biggest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings no longer translated into English or different ecu languages. Over 30 volumes have now seemed within the sequence, that is deliberate in a few 60 volumes altogether. matters lined during this, the 3rd and final, quantity of translation of this paintings comprise: why the weather are 4 in quantity; what is wrong with Empedocles' concept of parts; how homogeneous stuffs, quite the tissues of a dwelling physique, emerge as and include the weather. the amount additionally includes extremely important discussions of factors, really of effective reason, and of necessity within the sphere of new release and corruption. it will likely be of curiosity to the scholars of historic philosophy and technological know-how (the statement attracts on prior philosophical and clinical texts); of Patristics and Christian Theology (it permits comparability of Philoponus' later creationist doctrine along with his previous rules approximately generation); of medieval philosophy (this textual content used to be recognized to the Arabs; it really is utilized by Avicenna and Averroes); and to somebody with curiosity within the metaphysics of causation, emergence, necessity and determinism

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112 For it has been said by him above that ‘if nothing perceptible, at least, is prior to these, all of these will be’ [332a26].

46 But all these four are the matter of the composites that follow upon [them]. But if all [four] are the principle and matter of the composites, is it qua unchangeable, he says, as is Empedocles’ view,47 or qua changeable into each other? And if they change into each other, is it that some change and some do not, as Plato said, who assumed that earth is unchangeable,48 or do all change into each other, as we have shown, because all have contrariety in relation to each other? 332a30-4 That it is in fact necessary that they should change49 into one another has been proved above [and it has been said above that different ones do not come into existence from each other equally fast, since those that have a counterpart come into existence from each other quicker, and those that do not have one, slower].

And if it is not incongruous to say that everything is from fire as from matter, since it, being matter in a universal sense, would be able to receive different forms, it is clear that neither will it be incongruous to derive the rest from the fire that undergoes change and to say that everything is fire on that account. For similarly, he says, it is incongruous to say both that the others come to be because of fire undergoing change and to say that the rest come to be from fire as matter. Now, then, as far as what has been said is concerned, the refutations do not seem to have too much rigor.

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