{"product_id":"simplicius-on-aristotle-on-the-heavens-1-10-12-9781472557438","title":"Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.10-12","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Simplicius\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the three chapters of \u003ci\u003eOn the Heavens \u003c\/i\u003edealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius' commentary, translated here, we see a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's\u003ci\u003e On the Heavens\u003c\/i\u003e Simplicius partly preserves. Simplicius' rival, the Christian Philoponus, had conducted a parallel battle in his \u003ci\u003eAgainst Proclus\u003c\/i\u003e but had taken the side of Alexander against Proclus and other Platonists, arguing that Plato's \u003ci\u003eTimaeus \u003c\/i\u003egives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius takes the Platonist side, denying that Plato intended a beginning. The origin to which Plato refers is, according to Simplicius, not a temporal origin, but the divine cause that produces the world without beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45086351294615,"sku":"9781472557438","price":4954.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781472557438.webp?v=1767142944","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/simplicius-on-aristotle-on-the-heavens-1-10-12-9781472557438","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}