Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10

by Simplicius and Richard D. McKirahan

Book Overview

Aristotle's Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. Aristotle argues that things in motion need to be moved by something other than themselves - he rejects Plato's self-movers. On pain of regress, there must be an unmoved mover. If this unmoved mover is to cause motion eternally, it needs infinite power. It cannot, then, be a body, since bodies, being of finite size,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780938977
• ISBN13: 9781780938974
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"