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Title Pseudo-Aristotle : De Mundo (on the cosmos) : a commentary / edited by Pavel Gregorić, George Karamanolis
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020

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Summary 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
Notes English text, partially translated from the Ancient Greek
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 31, 2020)
Subject Aristotle. Mundo
Cosmology, Ancient.
Cosmology, Ancient
Form Electronic book
Author Gregoric, Pavel, 1972- editor.
Karamanolis, George, editor
Aristotle. Mundo
Aristotle. Mundo. English
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