Philoponus: On Aristotle Categories 1? With Philoponus: A Treatise Concerning The Whole And The Parts (Ancient Commentators On Aristotle)

Philoponus was a Christian writing in Greek in 6th century CE Alexandria, where some students of philosophy were bilingual in Syriac as well as Greek. In this Greek treatise translated from the surviving Syriac version, Philoponus discusses the logic of parts and wholes, and he illustrates the spread of the pagan and Christian philosophy of 6th century CE Greeks to other cultures, in this case to Syria. Philoponus, an expert on Aristotle's philosophy, had turned to theology and was applying his knowledge of Aristotle to disputes over the human and divine nature of Christ. Were there two natures and were they parts of a whole, as the Emperor Justinian proposed, or was there only one nature, as Philoponus claimed with the rebel minority, both human and divine? If there were two natures, were they parts like the ingredients in a chemical mixture? Philoponus attacks the idea. Such ingredients are not parts, because they each inter-penetrate the whole mixture. Moreover, he abandons his ingenious earlier attempts to support Aristotle's view of mixture by identifying ways in which such ingredients might be thought of as potentially preserved in a chemical mixture. Instead, Philoponus says that the ingredients are destroyed, unlike the human and divine in Christ."-- 9781472584106 1472584104 233 Philosophy NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=67OyBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: John Philoponus
• • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• • Publication Date: Feb 12, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 232 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472584104
• • ISBN-13: 9781472584106