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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) by Simplicius, de Cilicie.; Richard D McKirahan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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. Aristotle argues that things in motion need to be moved by something other than themselves -- he rejects Plato's self-movers. On pain of regress, there must be an unmoved mover. If this unmoved mover is to cause motion eternally, it needs infinite power. It cannot, then, be a body, since bodies, being of finite size, cannot house infinite power. The unmoved mover is th
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- Author
- Simplicius, de Cilicie.; Richard D McKirahan
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781780938974
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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