Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties

Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties
Title Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties PDF eBook
Author Helen S. Lang
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 336
Release 1992-08-17
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1438410042

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This book considers the concepts that lay at the heart of natural philosophy and physics from the time of Aristotle until the fourteenth century. The first part presents Aristotelian ideas and the second part presents the interpretation of these ideas by Philoponus, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, and Duns Scotus. Across the eight chapters, the problems and texts from Aristotle that set the stage for European natural philosophy as it was practiced from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries are considered first as they appear in Aristotle and then as they are reconsidered in the context of later interests. The study concludes with an anticipation of Newton and the sense in which Aristotle's physics had been transformed.

Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties

Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties
Title Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties PDF eBook
Author Helen S. Lang
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 336
Release 1992-01-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780791410837

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This book considers the concepts that lay at the heart of natural philosophy and physics from the time of Aristotle until the fourteenth century. The first part presents Aristotelian ideas and the second part presents the interpretation of these ideas by Philoponus, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, and Duns Scotus. Across the eight chapters, the problems and texts from Aristotle that set the stage for European natural philosophy as it was practiced from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries are considered first as they appear in Aristotle and then as they are reconsidered in the context of later interests. The study concludes with an anticipation of Newton and the sense in which Aristotle's physics had been transformed.

The Elements of Avicennaʼs Physics

The Elements of Avicennaʼs Physics
Title The Elements of Avicennaʼs Physics PDF eBook
Author Andreas Lammer
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 614
Release 2018-02-05
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3110546795

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This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the physical theory of the Islamic philosopher Avicenna (d. 1037). It seeks to understand his contribution against the developments within the preceding Greek and Arabic intellectual milieus, and to appreciate his philosophy as such by emphasising his independence as a critical and systematic thinker. Exploring Avicenna’s method of "teaching and learning," it investigates the implications of his account of the natural body as a three-dimensionally extended composite of matter and form, and examines his views on nature as a principle of motion and his analysis of its relation to soul. Moreover, it demonstrates how Avicenna defends the Aristotelian conception of place against the strident criticism of his predecessors, among other things, by disproving the existence of void and space. Finally, it sheds new light on Avicenna’s account of the essence and the existence of time. For the first time taking into account the entire range of Avicenna’s major writings, this study fills a gap in our understanding both of the history of natural philosophy in general and of the philosophy of Avicenna in particular. This monograph has been awarded the annual BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize (Kulturpreis Bayern) in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World and the Iran World Award for Book of the Year (2020).

The Crisis of Causality

The Crisis of Causality
Title The Crisis of Causality PDF eBook
Author Han van Ruler
Publisher BRILL
Pages 367
Release 1995-07-01
Genre History
ISBN 9004247203

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The Crisis of Causality deals with the reaction of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) to the New Philosophy of René Descartes (1596-1650). Voetius not only criticised the Cartesian idea of a mechanical Universe; he also foresaw that shifting conceptions of natural causality would make it impossible for theologians to explain the relationship between God and Creation in philosophical terms. This threatened the status of theology as a scientific discipline. Apart from a detailed analysis of the Scholastic and Cartesian notions of causality, the book offers new perspectives on related subjects, such as seventeenth-century university training and the Cartesian method of science. It will be of great importance to any student of seventeenth-century intellectual history, philosophy, theology and history of science.

Aristotle's Physics and Its Reception in the Arabic World

Aristotle's Physics and Its Reception in the Arabic World
Title Aristotle's Physics and Its Reception in the Arabic World PDF eBook
Author Paul Lettinck
Publisher Brill
Pages 814
Release 1994
Genre Philosophy
ISBN

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Presents a survey of what Arabic philosophers, as commentators of Aristotle's Physics, have contributed to philosophy and science in the Middle Ages. Their influences on each other and the extent of the influences of previous Greek commentators on them, are also examined.

The Physics of Duns Scotus

The Physics of Duns Scotus
Title The Physics of Duns Scotus PDF eBook
Author Richard Cross
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 326
Release 1998
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780198269748

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This text contains detailed discussion and analysis of Dun Scotus's accounts of the nature of matter and the structure of material substance. His views on these matters are sophisticated and highly original.

Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition

Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition
Title Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition PDF eBook
Author Ahmed Alwishah
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 277
Release 2015-09-17
Genre History
ISBN 1107101735

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Examines Aristotle's vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus.