Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 3

by Simplicius and Peter Lautner

Book Overview

Aristotle's Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change receives two definitions in chapters 1 and 2, as involving the actualisation of the potential or of the changeable. Alexander of Aphrodisias is reported as thinking that the second version is designed to show that Book 3, like Book 5, means to disqualify...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472557352
• ISBN13: 9781472557353
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"