Commentary on Aristotle's Physics

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commentary on Aristotle late antique work philosophical commentary

Commentary on Aristotle's Physics is an influential late antique philosophical work in which Simplicius of Cilicia analyzes and explains Aristotle’s treatise on nature, motion, and the principles of the physical world.

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Commentary on Aristotle's Physics canonical	1
Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	commentary on Aristotle ⓘ late antique work ⓘ philosophical commentary ⓘ
aimsTo	defend Aristotle against critics ⓘ reconcile Aristotle with Plato ⓘ
analyzes	Aristotle's principles of the physical world ⓘ Aristotle's theory of motion ⓘ Aristotle's theory of nature ⓘ
author	Simplicius of Cilicia NERFINISHED ⓘ
contains	exegesis of Aristotle's text line by line ⓘ philosophical digressions ⓘ reports of earlier commentators ⓘ
focusesOn	causality ⓘ concept of change ⓘ concept of motion ⓘ concept of nature (physis) ⓘ eternity of the world ⓘ infinite and continuum ⓘ place and void ⓘ time ⓘ
genre	philosophical commentary ⓘ
influenced	Byzantine philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ Islamic philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ Latin scholasticism NERFINISHED ⓘ medieval Aristotelianism ⓘ
influencedBy	Alexandrian commentary tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ Aristotle ⓘ Neoplatonic exegesis ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
mainSubject	Aristotle's Physics NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Aristotelian commentary tradition ⓘ
period	Late Antiquity ⓘ
philosophicalApproach	Neoplatonic metaphysical framework ⓘ harmonization of Plato and Aristotle ⓘ
preserves	fragments of pre-Socratic philosophers ⓘ testimonia about Stoic physics ⓘ testimonia about earlier Peripatetics ⓘ
relatedWorkByAuthor	Commentary on Aristotle's Categories NERFINISHED ⓘ Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima NERFINISHED ⓘ Commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo NERFINISHED ⓘ
studiedIn	classics ⓘ history of philosophy ⓘ history of science ⓘ
survivesAs	medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ
tradition	Neoplatonism NERFINISHED ⓘ Peripatetic philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedAs	source for history of ancient physics ⓘ teaching text in late antique schools ⓘ

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Simplicius of Cilicia → notableWork → Commentary on Aristotle's Physics ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics