
Format: Hardback
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9780801437878
Pub Date: December 2001
Imprint: Cornell University Press
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Aristotle’s Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. Simplicius reveals that his teacher, Ammonius, harmonised Aristotle with Plato to counter Christian charges of pagan disagreement, by making Aristotle’s God a cause of beginningless movement, but of beginningless existence of the universe