By Philoponus
Philoponus' remark at the final a part of Aristotle's Physics ebook four doesn't supply significant choices to Aristotle's technological know-how, as did his remark at the previous elements, relating position, vacuum and movement in a vacuum. Aristotle's topic this is time, and his therapy of it had resulted in controversy in prior writers. Philoponus does provide novelties while he treats movement around a bend as in a single feel quicker than movement at the directly over a similar distance within the related time, a result of have to ponder the higher attempt concerned. And he issues out that during an past observation on e-book eight he had argued opposed to Aristotle for the opportunity of a final rapid of time.
This quantity comprises an English translation of Philoponus' remark, in addition to a close creation, huge explanatory notes and a bibliography.
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See Philoponus contra Aristotelem ap. Simplicium, in Phys. 1178,7-35 (Sorabji [2004], vol. 2, 179-80), and 1179,15-26 (Sorabji ibid. , 176). one hundred seventy. i. e. the descriptions ‘end of X’ and ‘beginning of Y’ are basic by way of comparability with the outline ‘common boundary of X and Y’. 171. either right here and within the different analyzing which Philoponus mentions less than, the wording differs significantly from the Bekker textual content, however the which means is identical. 172. the choice examining is rather than what has been translated as ‘in as far as what's continuously an analogous point’. 173. rather than sunthesis Bekker has henôsis (‘unification’). even though, Philoponus speaks of unification at 764,19-20. 174. i. e. the current one. one hundred seventy five. actually, whilst Aristotle refers to ‘the former now’ at 222a25, he obviously ability the on the spot current (the ‘broad’ current being the latter now). 112 Notes to pages 73-80 176. i. e. the current now, pointed out within the comparable line. 177. i. e. to a given some-time. E. g. the determinate temporal volume of getting been 1000 years in the past from the current belongs to the ‘when’ of the Trojan struggle. 178. This seems as a citation yet now not as a lemma in Vitelli. 179. Philoponus is touching on ‘specified time’, i. e. a determinate interval comparable to a yr. Time during this experience is clearly one basically in variety, no longer in quantity. one hundred eighty. Philoponus leaves this as a supposition; see n. 167. 181. To de arti morion ti kai car tou parelêluthotos khronou. Bekker reads kai to arti to engus tou parontos nun, to morion tou parelthontos. 182. it will possibly appear that Philoponus (and Aristotle within the unique textual content) overlooks the best way Aristotle’s personal research of circulation and alter (‘the reality of what's most likely F qua in all likelihood F’) foregrounds the confident terminus advert quem of the subject’s transition (Physics III, 201a9-b15). even if, a similar research additionally gains the agent of the swap: that which introduces F into the topic (201a19-25; 202a3-12; 202a13-21). (In usual philosophy one will be learning brokers whose nature it really is to impact sufferers in numerous methods. ) From the perspective, so that you could converse, of the evidently F-bearing agent, the single attention-grabbing or particular factor concerning the specific swap that's instrumental for generating F in a given topic lies in its being a shift from a few incompatible situation G. consequently if we (a) think the explicit contribution of the agent after which (b) pay attention to the switch on its own, we see the latter as not anything yet a shift from the terminus a quo. 183. not like the simply pointed out reason behind perishing, this clarification hyperlinks perishing with having come into being. 184. there's a trifling divergence from Bekker. 185. See n. 20. 186. Like Aristotle (cf. 222b31-223a4), Philoponus is concerned to prevent suggesting that each person circulate varies in velocity. 187. Philoponus doesn't supply separate proofs of the premisses of B, simply because B has an analogous significant premiss as A, and its minor will be reached by means of valid conversion from the minor of A. 188. the instance is legendary from Plato’s Parmenides, 131b3-5.