Commentary on Aristotle's Physics
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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 | 3 |
| Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics | 1 |
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Target entity: Commentary on Aristotle's Physics Context triple: [Simplicius of Cilicia, notableWork, Commentary on Aristotle's Physics]
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Commentaries on Aristotle
Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential medieval philosophical and theological works in which St. Thomas Aquinas analyzes and interprets Aristotle’s writings, integrating them with Christian thought.
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B.
Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption
Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption is a foundational philosophical treatise that analyzes how physical substances come into being, change, and pass away, forming a core part of his natural philosophy.
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Aristotle’s On the Heavens
Aristotle’s On the Heavens is an influential ancient Greek treatise that presents Aristotle’s cosmology and theories about the structure and motions of the universe.
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Middle Commentaries on Aristotle
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential philosophical and explanatory works by Averroes that provide systematic, intermediate-level interpretations of Aristotle’s major texts for students and scholars in the medieval Islamic and later Latin traditions.
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E.
Quaestiones in Metaphysicam Aristotelis
Quaestiones in Metaphysicam Aristotelis is a medieval scholastic commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics that explores key issues in ontology, causality, and the nature of being.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Commentary on Aristotle's Physics Target entity description: 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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A.
Commentaries on Aristotle
Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential medieval philosophical and theological works in which St. Thomas Aquinas analyzes and interprets Aristotle’s writings, integrating them with Christian thought.
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B.
Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption
Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption is a foundational philosophical treatise that analyzes how physical substances come into being, change, and pass away, forming a core part of his natural philosophy.
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C.
Aristotle’s On the Heavens
Aristotle’s On the Heavens is an influential ancient Greek treatise that presents Aristotle’s cosmology and theories about the structure and motions of the universe.
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D.
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential philosophical and explanatory works by Averroes that provide systematic, intermediate-level interpretations of Aristotle’s major texts for students and scholars in the medieval Islamic and later Latin traditions.
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E.
Quaestiones in Metaphysicam Aristotelis
Quaestiones in Metaphysicam Aristotelis is a medieval scholastic commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics that explores key issues in ontology, causality, and the nature of being.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
commentary on Aristotle
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late antique work ⓘ philosophical commentary ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
defend Aristotle against critics
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reconcile Aristotle with Plato ⓘ |
| analyzes |
Aristotle's principles of the physical world
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Aristotle's theory of motion ⓘ Aristotle's theory of nature ⓘ |
| author | Simplicius of Cilicia ⓘ |
| contains |
exegesis of Aristotle's text line by line
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philosophical digressions ⓘ reports of earlier commentators ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
causality
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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
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linked to:
Byzantine Platonism
Islamic philosophy ⓘ Latin scholasticism ⓘ
linked to:
Scholasticism
medieval Aristotelianism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Alexandrian commentary tradition
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linked to:
Alexandrian scholarship
Aristotle ⓘ Neoplatonic exegesis ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Aristotle's Physics
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linked to:
Physics (Aristotle)
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| partOf | Aristotelian commentary tradition ⓘ |
| period | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| philosophicalApproach |
Neoplatonic metaphysical framework
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harmonization of Plato and Aristotle ⓘ |
| preserves |
fragments of pre-Socratic philosophers
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testimonia about Stoic physics ⓘ testimonia about earlier Peripatetics ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Commentary on Aristotle's Categories
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Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima ⓘ Commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
classics
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history of philosophy ⓘ history of science ⓘ |
| survivesAs | medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ |
| tradition |
Neoplatonism
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Peripatetic philosophy ⓘ
linked to:
Peripatetic school
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| usedAs |
source for history of ancient physics
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teaching text in late antique schools ⓘ |
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