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Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements Joseph Bobik

Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements By Joseph Bobik

Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements by Joseph Bobik

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In this volume, the author presents, translates, and offers an interpretation of Aquinas's De Principiis Naturae and his De Mixtione Elementorum. He reflects on what Aquinas says about matter and form and the elements in various contexts and throughout his works.

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Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements: A Translation and Interpretation of the De Principiis Naturae and the De Mixtione Elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas by Joseph Bobik

Joseph Bobik offers a translation of Aquinas's De Principiis Naturae (circa 1252) and De Mixtione Elementorum (1273) accompanied by a continuous commentary, followed by two essays: Elements in the Composition of Physical Substances and The Elements in Aquinas and the Elements Today. The Principles of Nature introduces the reader to the basic Aristotelian principles such as matter and form, the four causes so fundamental to Aquinas's philosophy. On Mixture of the Elements examines the question of how the four elements (earth, air, fire, and water) remain within the physical things composed from them.

Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements Reviews

This book offers a translation of Aquinas's De Principiis Naturae (circa 1252) and De Mixione Elementorum (1273) accompanied by a continuous commentary, followed by two essays: Elements in the Composition of Physical Substances and The Elements in Aquinas and the Elements Today. The unity of the volume rests in the question of the composition of natural things (whether out of matter and form, or out of the elements). . . . Bobik's translation is remarkably clear. - Review of Metaphysics

Congratulations and thanks to Joseph Bobik for having provided a translation that is both accurate and readable of Thomas's De principiis naturae and De mixitone elementorum. -The Thomist

This work is a companion to Bobik's earlier translation and commentary on Aquinas's On Being and Essence. The Principles of Nature introduces the reader to the basic Aristotelian principles such as matter and form, the four causes so fundamental to Aquinas's philosophy. On Mixture of the Elements examines the question of how the four elements (earth, air, fire, and water) remain within the physical things composed from them. Bobik gives probably the first published English translation of this work by Aquinas. He includes a section that puts some of the issues raised into a broader context by relating Aquinas's theory both to modern physics, especially the Big Bang theory, and to the work of a little-known medieval Jewish philosopher, Nahmanides. - Religious Studies Review

About Joseph Bobik

Joseph Bobik is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books.

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NLS9780268020002
9780268020002
0268020000
Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements: A Translation and Interpretation of the De Principiis Naturae and the De Mixtione Elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas by Joseph Bobik
Joseph Bobik
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University of Notre Dame Press
19980315
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