John Philoponus - Writings

Writings

John Philoponus wrote at least 40 works on a wide array of subjects including grammar, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and theology.

  • On words with different meanings in virtue of a difference of accent (De vocabulis quae diversum significatum exhibent secundum differentiam accentus)
  • Commentary on Aristotle's ‘On Generation and Corruption
  • Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima’
  • Commentary on Aristotle's Categories’
  • Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics’
  • Commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics’
  • Commentary on Aristotle's Physics Philoponus' most important commentary, in which he challenges Aristotle on time, space, void, matter and dynamics.
  • On the Eternity of the World against Proclus (De aeternitate mundi contra Proclum)
  • On the Eternity of the World against Aristotle (De aeternitate mundi contra Aristotelem) A refutation of Aristotle's doctrines of the fifth element and the eternity of motion and time, consisting of at least eight books.
  • Commentary on Aristotle's ‘Meteorology’
  • On the Contingency of the World (De contingentia mundi)
  • On the Use and Construction of the Astrolabe The oldest extant Greek treatise on the astrolabe.
  • Commentary on Nicomachus' Introduction to Arithmetic
  • On the Creation of the World (De opificio mundi) A theological-philosophical commentary on the Creation story in the Book of Genesis.
  • Arbiter (Diaitêtês) A philosophical justification of monophysitism. Not extant in Greek; Syriac text with Latin trans.
  • On the Trinity (De trinitate) The main source for a reconstruction of Philoponus' trinitarian doctrine.

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