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By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9781472557384
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In his "Categories", Aristotle divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories. This text provides a translation of Simplicius' commentary on "Categories" and represents over 600 years of criticism.


(Paperback)

By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9781472557377
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This text is a translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's "On the Heaven 1.1-4".


(Paperback)

By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9781472557438
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Here is a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander on the origins, if any, of the universe. A parallel battle had already been conducted by Philoponus and Proclus, arguing that Plato's "Timaeus" gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius denies this.


(Hardback)

By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9780715639207
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is the first complete translation into a modern language of the first part of the pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius of Cilicia's commentary on Aristotle's argument that the world neither came to be nor will perish.


(Paperback)

By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9781472557919
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is the first complete translation into a modern language of the first part of the pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius of Cilicia's commentary on Aristotle's argument that the world neither came to be nor will perish.


(Hardback)

By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9780715640630
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Until the launch of this series nearly twenty years ago, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or other European languages. Over 60 volumes have now appeared in the series, which is planned in some 80 volumes altogether.


(Paperback)

By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9781472557957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Until the launch of this series nearly twenty years ago, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or other European languages. Over 60 volumes have now appeared in the series, which is planned in some 80 volumes altogether.


(Paperback)

By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9781472557421
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A discourse between Simplicius and Aristotle on whether there is more than one physical world and whether the universe exists beyond the outermost stars. Here, Simplicius tells of the different theories of acceleration in Greek philosophy.


(Paperback)

By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9781472557414
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In "On the Heavens" Aristotle discusses his theory that the stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. This text provides a translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's work.


(Paperback)

By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9781472557841
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Presents Simplicius' selection of Presocratic texts. This book criticizes the lost commentary of the leading Aristotelian commentator, Alexander.


(Paperback)

By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9781472557858
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines Aristotle's criticisms of Plato's theory of elemental chemistry in the "Timaeus". This book identifies fifteen objections by Aristotle to Plato's views on weight in the four elements.


(Hardback)

By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9780715639214
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, a pathbreaking enterprise which for the first time translates the commentaries of the Neoplatonic commentators on the works of Aristotle into English.


(Paperback)

By: Simplicius

ISBN: 9781472557926
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, a pathbreaking enterprise which for the first time translates the commentaries of the Neoplatonic commentators on the works of Aristotle into English.