Umfang:
IX, 229 S.
ISBN:
9780199567737
Inhalt:
Introduction : science through exegesis -- The complexity of Averroes' writing -- Description of the corpus -- The short commentary -- The middle commentary -- The long commentary -- The questions in physics -- The order of writing -- The changing cultural contexts -- Versions and revisions -- The short commentary -- The middle commentary -- The long commentary -- The late stratum of the long commentary -- The formal introduction -- The uses of syllogism -- The turning to alexander -- Averroes' new physics -- The turning point of Physics VIII : the breakdown of determinism -- The challenge of indeterminism -- Conflicting messages in Aristotle -- The story of the middle commentary -- The riddle of the long commentary -- The turning point of Physics VI : the breakdown of motion -- Introduction: The various concepts of motion in Aristotle's physics -- Aristotle's divisibility argument : a crack in the interval model of motion (Physics VI.4) -- Physics V reinterpreted : from homogeneity to heterogeneity -- Physics VI reinterpreted : from a continuous interval to a contiguous chain -- Physics III reintepreted : from dimensional entity toboundary entity -- When did the turning point occur? -- The turning point of Physics III : the breakdown of physical body -- Can physical body be a true homoeomer? -- Aristotle's moving-agent argument (physics VII.1) -- Alexander vs. Galen on the meaning of essentiality -- Averroes' notion of first-moved part -- Averroes' Aristotelian atomism -- The divorce between mathematics and physics -- When did the turning point occur?
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-194) and index
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Introduction : science through exegesis -- The complexity of Averroes' writing -- Description of the corpus -- The short commentary -- The middle commentary -- The long commentary -- The questions in physics -- The order of writing -- The changing cultural contexts -- Versions and revisions -- The short commentary -- The middle commentary -- The long commentary -- The late stratum of the long commentary -- The formal introduction -- The uses of syllogism -- The turning to alexander -- Averroes' new physics -- The turning point of Physics VIII : the breakdown of determinism -- The challenge of indeterminism -- Conflicting messages in Aristotle -- The story of the middle commentary -- The riddle of the long commentary -- The turning point of Physics VI : the breakdown of motion -- Introduction: The various concepts of motion in Aristotle's physics -- Aristotle's divisibility argument : a crack in the interval model of motion (Physics VI.4) -- Physics V reinterpreted : from homogeneity to heterogeneity -- Physics VI reinterpreted : from a continuous interval to a contiguous chain -- Physics III reintepreted : from dimensional entity toboundary entity -- When did the turning point occur? -- The turning point of Physics III : the breakdown of physical body -- Can physical body be a true homoeomer? -- Aristotle's moving-agent argument (physics VII.1) -- Alexander vs. Galen on the meaning of essentiality -- Averroes' notion of first-moved part -- Averroes' Aristotelian atomism -- The divorce between mathematics and physics -- When did the turning point occur?
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Glasner, Ruth Averroe͏̈s' physics Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009 ISBN 9780191721472
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0191721476
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Philosophie
Schlagwort(e):
Averroes 1126-1198
;
Aristoteles v384-v322
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Philosophie
;
Geschichte 500-1500
;
Physik
