John Philoponus: towards a christian comprehensive reading of aristotelian philosophy

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleΙωάννης Φιλόπονος: προς μια χριστιανική ανάγνωση της αριστοτελικής φιλοσοφίας
3. lemma author Katsiampoura, Gianna
4. lemma category History and philosophy of science
5. Publication date 01-12-2017
6. lemma work Βάρα, Ανθή [Author]. John Philoponus: towards a Christian comprehensive reading of aristotelian philosophy
7. lemma manifestations John Philoponus: towards a christian comprehensive reading of aristotelian philosophy
8. Keywords John Philoponus - Aristotle - Aristotelian Physics
9. Citations
   1. <p>Vara, Anthi, <em>Ιωάννης Φιλόπονος: προς μια χριστιανική ανάγνωση της αριστοτελικής φιλοσοφίας</em> (<em>John Philoponus: towards a christian comprehensive reading of aristotelian philosophy</em>), Hellenic Open University, Patra 2017</p>
10. Lemma body

    1. In this MA thesis, the writer, Anthi Vara, exercises the work of John Philoponus (490-570),  the Christian writer, who greatly challenged and questioned the Aristotelian science. According to the writer, he re-developed Aristotle’s theory on dynamics, which did not include God –the creator and he replaced it with the theory of the impetus, which has been recognized by Kuhn, as a scientific revolution. Philoponus' heterodox position towards the Trinity led to his excommunication from Church. Philoponus' scientific ideas appeared in the latin West during the 13th century, when some of his thoughts and perspectives became known either through direct translation or through censored Arab sources. During Renaissance, all of his work was translated and this contributed to an entire movement opposing the Aristotelian thinking and to the emergence of scientific revolution from the natural philosophers of the 17th century.

       Here, Vara describes the Philoponus' scientific ideas, its origins and its relationship with scientific discourse in Renaissance.