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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