Alexander of Aprodisias: On Aristotle Meteorology 4

Eric Lewis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2014
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-5805-3 (ISBN)

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Aristotle's Meteorology Book 4 provides an account of the formation of minerals, metals and other homogeneous stuffs. Eric Lewis argues that, in doing so, it offers fresh insight into Aristotle's concept of matter. The four elements (earth, air, fire and water) do have matter, and their matter is the contraries - hot and cold, moist and dry. Lewis further argues that in the text translated here, the only extant ancient commentary on the Meteorology, Alexander of Aphrodisias supports this interpretation of Aristotle. Such a conception of matter complements the account given at an earlier point in the corpus of Aristotle's work in On Generation and Corruption and is confirmed by the account at later points in the biological works, although it adds further detail. Meteorology 4 emerges as an important book. Alexander's commentary is here translated into English for the first time.

Eric Lewis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, McGill University, Canada.

Preface
Introduction
Textual Emendations
TRANSLATION
Notes
Bibliography English-Greek
Glossary Greek-English Index
Index of Passages Cited
Subject
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.4.2014
Reihe/Serie	Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	281 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-4725-5805-7 / 1472558057
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-5805-3 / 9781472558053
Zustand	Neuware