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Pseudo-Aristotle: De Mundo (On the Cosmos)
A Commentary
Pavel Gregori?,George Karamanolis
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Pseudo-Aristotle: De Mundo (On the Cosmos)
A Commentary
Pavel Gregori?,George Karamanolis
About This Book
De mundo is a protreptic to philosophy in the form of a letter to Alexander the Great and is traditionally ascribed to Aristotle. It offers a unique view of the cosmos, God and their relationship, which was inspired by Aristotle but written by a later author. The author provides an outline of cosmology, geography and meteorology, only to argue that a full understanding of the cosmos cannot be achieved without a proper grasp of God as its ultimate cause. To ensure such a grasp, the author provides a series of twelve carefully chosen interlocking analogies, building a complex picture in the reader's mind. The work develops a distinctly Aristotelian picture of God and the cosmos while paying tribute to pre-Aristotelian philosophers and avoiding open criticism of rival schools of philosophy. De mundo exercised considerable influence in late antiquity and then in the Renaissance and Early Modern times.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 On Philosophy and Its Proper Subject (Chapter 1)
- Chapter 3 The Heavenly Sphere (Chapter 2, 391b9–392a31)
- Chapter 4 The Sublunary Domain (Chapters 2–3, 392a31–393a8)
- Chapter 5 Geography (Chapter 3, 393a9–394a6)
- Chapter 6 Meteorology (Chapter 4)
- Chapter 7 The Eternity of the Cosmos (Chapter 5)
- Chapter 8 God’s Relation to the Cosmos (Chapter 6)
- Chapter 9 God’s Many Names (Chapter 7)
- Bibliography
- Index