Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.1-4

by Simplicius

Book Overview

In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain the rotation of the heavens, which, like nearly all Greeks, Aristotle took to be real, not apparent. Even a member of his school, Xenarchus, we are told, rejected his fifth element. The Neoplatonist Simplicius seeks to harmonise Plato and Aristotle. Plato, he says, thought that the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472557379
• ISBN13: 9781472557377
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"