How Long to Read Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10

How Long Does it Take to Read Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10 by Richard D. McKirahan

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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 therefore an incorporeal God. 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. Eternal existence, not less than eternal motion, calls for an infinite, and hence incorporeal, force. By an irony, this anti-Christian interpretation turned Aristotle's God from a thinker into a certain kind of Creator, and so helped to make Aristotle's God acceptable to St Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century. This text provides a translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's work.

How long is Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10?

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10 by Richard D. McKirahan is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10 aloud.

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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