Pseudo-Aristotle: De Mundo (On the Cosmos): A Commentary

Author:   Pavel Gregorić ,  George Karamanolis (Universität Wien, Austria)
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Pages:   320
Publication Date:   17 December 2020
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Pseudo-Aristotle: De Mundo (On the Cosmos): A Commentary


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De mundo is a protreptic to philosophy in the form of a letter to Alexander the Great and is traditionally ascribed to Aristotle. It offers a unique view of the cosmos, God and their relationship, which was inspired by Aristotle but written by a later author. The author provides an outline of cosmology, geography and meteorology, only to argue that a full understanding of the cosmos cannot be achieved without a proper grasp of God as its ultimate cause. To ensure such a grasp, the author provides a series of twelve carefully chosen interlocking analogies, building a complex picture in the reader's mind. The work develops a distinctly Aristotelian picture of God and the cosmos while paying tribute to pre-Aristotelian philosophers and avoiding open criticism of rival schools of philosophy. De mundo exercised considerable influence in late antiquity and then in the Renaissance and Early Modern times.

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Author:   Pavel Gregorić ,  George Karamanolis (Universität Wien, Austria)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 15.00cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9781108834780


ISBN 10:   1108834787
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   17 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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1. Introduction Pavel Gregorić and George Karamanolis; 2. On philosophy and its proper subject (Chapter 1) George Karamanolis; 3. The heavenly sphere (Chapter 2, 391b9–392a31) Karel Thein; 4. The sublunary domain (Chapters 2–3, 392a31–393a8) Jakub Jirsa; 5. Geography (Chapter 3, 392a31–393a8) Irene Pajón Leyra and Hynek Bartoš; 6. Meteorology (Chapter 4) István Baksa; 7. The eternity of the cosmos (Chapter 5) Pavel Gregorić; 8. God's relation to the cosmos (Chapter 6) Gábor Betegh and Pavel Gregorić; 9. God's many names (Chapter 7) Vojtěch Hladký.

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Pavel Gregorić is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, working on ancient, Renaissance and early modern philosophy. He has published Aristotle on the Common Sense (2007), and is a co-editor of the volume Encounters with Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind (2020) and a contributor to Hackett's forthcoming new translation of Aristotle complete works. George Karamanolis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He has published Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry (2006) and The Philosophy of Early Christianity (2013), and edited Studies on Porphyry (with Anne Sheppard, 2007) and The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy (with Vasilis Politis, Cambridge, 2017).

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