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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.1-4 by Simplicius 9781472557377
Booksplease Price: £40.79In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain the rotation of the heavens, which, like... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 3 by Simplicius 9781472557353
Booksplease Price: £40.79Aristotle's Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.10-12 by Simplicius 9781472557438
Booksplease Price: £40.79In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius' commentary, translated here, we see a battle... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.3-4 by Simplicius 9781472557957
Booksplease Price: £40.79This is the first English translation of Simplicius' responses to Philoponus' Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World. The commentary is published in two volumes: Ian Mueller's previous book... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 1-4 by Simplicius 9781472557384
Booksplease Price: £40.79Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism. In his Categories, Aristotle divides... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.2-3 by Simplicius 9781472557919
Booksplease Price: £40.79One of the arguments in Aristotle's On the Heavens propounds that the world neither came to be nor will perish. This volume contains the pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius of Cilicia's commentary on the... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.3-4 by Simplicius 9781472557926
Booksplease Price: £40.79In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenides and Zeno,... -
Simplicius Simplicissimus by Hellmuth Weissenborn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Simplicius Simplicissimus - the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest novelists in the German language - charts the adventures of its hero, Simplicius, through... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 7 by C. Hagen 9781780934211
Booksplease Price: £40.79There has recently been considerable renewed interest in Book 7 of the Physics of Aristotle, once regarded as merely an undeveloped forerunner to Book 8. The debate surrounding the importance of the... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 6 by David Konstan 9781780933658
Booksplease Price: £40.79Book Six of Aristotle's Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent Greek and Islamic atomists to reshape their views... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 2 by Barrie Fleet 9781780938646
Booksplease Price: £40.79Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle's ideas, as well as being the most interesting and representative book in the whole of his corpus. It defines nature and... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9 by Han Baltussen 9781472557865
Booksplease Price: £40.79Simplicius' greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. The sixth-century philosopher starts with a valuable elucidation of what Aristotle... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 9-15 by Richard Gaskin 9781472558510
Booksplease Price: £40.79Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relative, and six others. Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, attacked the classification, accepting... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.1–2 by Dr Stephen Menn 9781350285729
Booksplease Price: £31.86With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1–2, Aristotle raises the question of the... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 2.10-14 by Ian Mueller 9781472558121
Booksplease Price: £40.79Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the universe and a preferred direction of rotation. The sun, moon and planets are... -
Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 1-26 by Charles Brittain 9781472558060
Booksplease Price: £40.79'[Simplicius'] moral interpretation of Epictetus is preserved in the library of nations, as a classic book, most excellently adapted to direct the will, to purify the heart, and to confirm the... -
Simplicius: Corollaries on Place and Time by J. O. Urmson 9781780934273
Booksplease Price: £40.79Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whole of time exist all at once? Does it progress... -
The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 2.1-9 by Ian Mueller 9781472557414
Booksplease Price: £40.79Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the universe and a preferred direction of rotation. The sun moon and planets are... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 5-6 by Barrie Fleet 9781780938936
Booksplease Price: £40.79Chapters 5 and 6 of Aristotle's Categories describe his first two categories, Substance and Quantity. It is usually taken that Plotinus attacked Aristotle's Categories, but that Porphyry and... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.1-2 by Dr Stephen Menn 9781350285682
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £89.65With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1-2, Aristotle raises the question of the... -
The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen 9781879751385
Booksplease Price: £27.60Written against a background of the Thirty Years' War and firstpublished in 1669, this renowned picaresque classic recounts withwonderful biting satire the vagabond adventures of a... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10 by Richard D. McKirahan 9781780938974
Booksplease Price: £40.79Aristotle's Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. Aristotle argues that things in motion need to be moved by something... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 3.1-7 by Ian Mueller 9781472557841
Booksplease Price: £40.79The subject of Aristotle's On the Heavens, Books 3-4, is the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, which exist below the heavens. Book 3, in chapters 1 to 7, frequently criticizes the... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 7-8 by Barrie Fleet 9781472557346
Booksplease Price: £40.79In Categories chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality. Critics of Aristotle had suggested for each of the non-substance categories that... -
Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 27-53 by Charles Brittain 9781472557360
Booksplease Price: £40.79The Enchiridion or Handbook of the first-century AD Stoic Epictetus was used as an ethical treatise both in Christian monasteries and by the sixth-century pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius. Simplicius... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 3.7-4.6 by Ian Mueller 9781472557858
Booksplease Price: £40.79Commenting on the end of Aristotle's On the Heavens Book 3, Simplicius examines Aristotle's criticisms of Plato's theory of elemental chemistry in the Timaeus. Plato makes the characteristics of the... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 5 by J. O. Urmson 9781472558466
Booksplease Price: £40.79Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics , lived in the sixth century A. D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics,... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.1-5 by Istvan Bodnar 9781472539175
Booksplease Price: £40.79In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight, chapters one to five, the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius quotes and explains important fragments of the Presocratic philosophers, provides... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.5-9 by R. J. Hankinson 9781472557421
Booksplease Price: £40.79Aristotle argues in On the Heavens 1.5-7 that there can be no infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be more than one physical world. As a corollary in 1.9, he infers that there is no... -
`Simplicius': On Aristotle On the Soul 3.6-13 by Professor Carlos Steel 9781472558022
Booksplease Price: £40.79This is the fourth and last volume of the translation in this series of the commentary on Aristotle On the Soul, wrongly attributed to Simplicius. Its real author, most probably Priscian of Lydia,... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Soul 1.1-2.4 by J. O. Urmson 9781472558435
Booksplease Price: £40.79The commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle's On the Soul appears in this series in three volumes, of which this is the first. The translation provides the first opportunity for a wider... -
'Simplicius': On Aristotle On the Soul 3.1-5 by H. J. Blumenthal 9781472558527
Booksplease Price: £40.79In On the Soul 3.1-5, Aristotle goes beyond the five sense to the general functions of sense perception, the imagination and the so-called active intellect, the of which was still a matter of... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14 by J. O. Urmson 9781780934242
Booksplease Price: £40.79This companion to J. O. Urmson's translation in the same series of Simplicius' Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius' commentary on the chapters on place and time in Aristotle's Physics... -
A Study of the Position of the Verb in Grimmelshausen's Simplicius Simplicissimus by Sophia Gerhardine Harms 9781249281108
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781249281108Author Sophia Gerhardine HarmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint BiblioscholarPublisher... -
Philoponus: Corollaries on Place and Void with Simplicius: Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World by Philoponus 9781780933740
Booksplease Price: £40.79In the Corollaries on Place and Void, Philoponus attacks Aristotle's conception of place as two-dimensional, adopting instead the view more familiar to us that it is three-dimensional, inert and... -
Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void by J. O. Urmson 9781472558046
Booksplease Price: £40.79Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text, recovered from... -
Greek and Latin authors on Jews and Judaism, Volume 2 From Tacitus to Simplicius by Stern 9789652080370
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £57.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652080370Author SternFormat HardbackPage Count 690Imprint Israel Academy of Sciences &... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1–8: General Introduction to the 12 Volumes of Translations by Dr Stephen Menn 9781350286665
Booksplease Price: £31.86Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius' great commentary on Aristotle's Physics, all published by Bloomsbury in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, between 1992 and... -
Priscian: On Theophrastus on Sense-Perception with 'Simplicius': On Aristotle On the Soul 2.5-12 by C. E. W. Steel 9781472558473
Booksplease Price: £40.79Simplicius and Priscian were two of the seven Neoplatonists who left Athens when the Christian Emperor Justinian closed the paganschool there in A.D. 529. The commentaries ascribed to them on works...