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Two Aristotelian puzzles about planets and their Neoplatonic reception

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posted on 2023-05-18, 01:49 authored by Dirk BaltzlyDirk Baltzly
The longevity of Aristotelian natural science consists not so much in the fact that Aristotle’s solutions to puzzles were accepted by generations of philosophers, but by the fact that the presuppositions that made these puzzles look puzzling were. In what follows I consider some Neoplatonic responses to two puzzles that Aristotle poses in De Caelo Book 2, Chapter 12. Both Proclus and Simplicius rejected Aristotle’s solutions to the puzzles he posed. In one case, but not in the other, they also reassessed the relative importance of the presuppositions that created the puzzle.

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Publication title

Apeiron: a journal of ancient philosophy and science

Volume

48

Issue

4

Pagination

483-501

ISSN

0003-6390

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Place of publication

Germany

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Copyright 2015 De Gruyter

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  • Open

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Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies

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