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What are some commentaries on Aristotle's Physics, so I can actually comprehend what the fuck is going on?
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>> No.10656140

>>10656127
>pic unrelated
Implying she is not exactly the right type of pseud to be interested in philosophy over two millennia out of date

>> No.10656316
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>>10656140
>you shouldn't read foundational works of science/natural philosophy because they're "out of date"

>> No.10656331

>>10656316
Normally I would agree but Aristotle's physics is one of the dumbest pile of shit ever written

>> No.10656332

>>10656127
http://www.ancientcommentators.org.uk

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>>10656140
> ignoring the groundwork of all modern philosophy

>> No.10656403

Saint Thomas Aquinas' Sententia super Physicam.
Also try Koninck's The Cosmos ?

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>The Physics is a lecture in which he seeks to determine beings that arise on their own, τὰ φύσει ὄντα, with regard to their being. Aristotelian "physics" is different from what we mean today by this word, not only to the extent that it belongs to antiquity whereas the modern physical sciences belong to modernity, rather above all it is different by virtue of the fact that Aristotle's "physics" is philosophy, whereas modern physics is a positive science that presupposes a philosophy.... This book determines the warp and woof of the whole of Western thinking, even at that place where it, as modern thinking, appears to think at odds with ancient thinking. But opposition is invariably comprised of a decisive, and often even perilous, dependence. Without Aristotle's Physics there would have been no Galileo.

I don't really understand /lit/'s aversion to reading Aristotle's works, I often see recommendations to skip it. Yes they are difficult reads, but people are willing to struggle through many modern works which are just as difficult. He is an essential figure for the whole western intellectual tradition, skipping him is fairly ludicrous.

>> No.10656422

>>10656127
Is that book where Aristotle said that Earth is the center of the universe? It may be factually untrue, but it is still worth to read it in a symbolical interpretation.