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	John Philoponus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2003 Edition)
		John Philoponus, a Christian philosopher, scientist, and theologian who lived approximately from 490 to 570, is also known as John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria.
		Philoponus contends that Aristotle' view fails to account both for the laws of optics and for the plain phenomenon that the region below the moon is warmed by the light of the sun, a celestial body.
		Philoponus concedes, of course, that the nature of Christ is not an ordinary one; it is complex, combining and preserving the properties of both what it is to be a god and what it is to be a man.
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/archives/win2003/entries/philoponus (5972 words)

	Quodlibet Online Journal: John Philoponus, Sixth Century Alexandrian Grammarian, Christian Theologian and Scientific ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		John Philoponus took seriously with the Church of Jesus Christ the Light of the Word of God not only as the source of the Gospel's proclamation to the world but also as the source for the rationality of the physics of the Cosmos.
		John the Grammarian labored at its Academy purged of pagans by the Emperor Justinian.
		John Philoponus' rational contingency of the universe was unintelligible to many and his argument for it won him many enemies both pagan and Christian.
	www.quodlibet.net /mckenna-philoponus.shtml (6239 words)

	John Philoponus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2005 Edition)
		Philoponus' intellectual career began when he was a pupil of the Neoplatonic philosopher Ammonius, son of Hermias, who had been taught by Proclus at Athens and was head of the school at Alexandria.
		Historians of logic, however, acknowledge that Philoponus was the first to render a satisfactory account of the syllogism (subsequently the traditional one), stating that the major premise includes the predicate term of the conclusion, the minor premise the subject term (In An.Pr.
		Judging from the fragmentary evidence, Philoponus' later theological treatises were characterized by a curious mixture of Christian doctrine and Aristotelian philosophy.
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/archives/win2005/entries/philoponus (5976 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04.05.10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Internal evidence suggests that Philoponus was at work on his commentary in 517; it has recently been argued that the work was revised after 529, after Philoponus' conversion to Christianity.
		As might be expected, Philoponus has most to say when his own views conflict with Aristotle's, as when he disagrees with Aristotle on the nature of formal causes (298,20 ff.) or suggests that there are actually six, rather than four, causes (see 241,18ff.
		The name "Philoponus" means "lover of work." As Sorabji has pointed out, we have no way of knowing whether this name was given to John Philoponus for this reason.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1993/04.05.10.html (812 words)

	Tritheists
		But Conon and Eugenius had to dispute in the reign of Justin II (565-78) in the presence of the Catholic patriarch, John Scholasticus (565-77), with two champions of the moderate Monophysite party, Stephen and Paul, the latter afterwards Patriarch of Antioch.
		They were banished to Palestine, and Philoponus wrote a book against John Scholasticus, who had given his verdict in favour of his adversaries.
		We are assured by Leontius that it was the Aristoteleanism of Philoponus which made him teach that there are in the Holy Trinity three partial substances (merikai ousiai, ikikai theotetes, idiai physeis) and one common.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/tritheists.html (556 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.07.66
		It covers John Philoponus' commentary on that segment of Aristotle's De Anima that is concerned with the nature and operation of the various senses.
		John takes 126 CAG pages to cover around six Bekker pages of Aristotle (418a24 - 424b18), which gives some idea of the scale and intensity of his analysis of the text.
		Again and again, throughout the commentary, we are given evidence not only of Philoponus' wide learning--he is the heir to a long tradition of 'scientific' discussion of the nature of sense-perception in general and in particular--but also of his powers of observation and willingness to conduct experiments himself.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2006/2006-07-66.html (652 words)

	JOHN PHILOPONUS
		Philoponus disagreed, teaching instead that a medium such as air that resists the motion of a projectile cannot also propel that projectile.
		Philoponus taught that light is a directional phenomenon.
		John Philoponus is believed to have lived an extraordinary long and productive life.
	www.rae.org /philop.html (1703 words)

	Reading Questions: Philoponus on Ballistic Motion
		Philoponus is concerned with the direction that the air will be moving as the missile (a rock, ball, or arrow) travels through it.
		In the next paragraph ("Again, the air that is in front..."), Philoponus argues that an explanation of an arrow's motion through antiperistasis would lead to a discontinuous motion of the arrow.
		A few paragraphs down ("For it would be possible, without such contact,..."), Philoponus proposes some experiments to test whether air is the main cause of projectile motion.
	homepages.wmich.edu /~mcgrew/rqphilball.htm (438 words)

	John Philoponus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Philoponus (also known as "Joannes Philoponus", "John the Grammarian", and "John of Alexandria") was an important philosopher in the 6th century AD, living from about 490 to about 570.
		He was a Greek philosopher of Alexandria who lived in the later part of the 5th century and the beginning of the 6th century.
		The name Grammaticus he assumed in virtue of his lectures on language and literature; the name Philoponus came from the large number of treatises he composed (it means lover of toil).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Philoponus (350 words)

	Gouden Hoorn 7,1: Dirk Krausmüller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The first one focusses on "practical" themes and envisages beginners as readers for whom it provides guidance in their fight against demons and passions whereas the second is more "theoretical" and addresses philosophical questions for the benefit of a highly educated and spiritually advanced readership.
		This is due to the fact that the teachings presented in John's "centuries" are not original in the modern sense but reflect traditional concepts.
		What sets John's chapter apart from even this last text, however, is that the teaching is presented as an interpretation of a Biblical verse.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /goudenhoorn/71dirk.html (2864 words)

	John Philoponus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Philoponus' elaborate defense of the void (In Phys.
		A.R. Lacey, Philoponus, On Aristotle's Physics 2, London: Duckworth, 1993; M. Edwards, Philoponus, On Aristotle's Physics 3, London: Duckworth, 1994; P. Lettinck, Philoponus, On Aristotle's Physics 5 to 8, London: Duckworth 1993/4; D.
		Wildberg, C. John Philoponus' Criticism of Aristotle's Theory of Aether, Berlin: De Gruyter.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/philoponus (5954 words)

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		II Philoponus, John On Aristotle's Physics 2 Translated by A.R. Lacey.
		Philoponus disagrees strongly with the Aristotelian account of ends and necessity: "Thus Aristotle then; but this argument does not seem to me to be sound" (DOKEI= DE/ MOI MH\ U(GIW=S E)/CHEIN TOU=TO TO\ E)PICHEI/RHMA).
		NOTES 1 The date of 517 is suggested by a reference at 703,16-17; the revised dating is argued for by Koenraad Verrycken in "The Development of Philoponus' Thought and its Chronology" in R. Sorabji, ed.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmmr/bmmr-9310-curd-on.txt (848 words)

	Book Review of di Berardino, Adrian Walford, Patrology - Edward Moore - Theandros - An Online journal of Orthodox ...
		Another of the longer entries, on John Philoponus (also by Lilla), does indeed cover difficult terrain with great command and knowledge; however, the readability of this entry is somewhat diminished by excessive citations of technical Greek terms and concepts, making it more useful to the specialist than the student of patrology.
		Philoponus was one of the most profound philosophical minds of his era, particularly in his synthesis of Platonic and Aristotelian concepts in the service of a Monophysite and Tritheistic theology.
		In this publication, however, a fine job is done of providing a concise and extremely helpful general overview of the period from Chalcedon to John of Damascus, by way of the introductions to each of the sections, the generally representative bibliographical data, and the lengthier entries on the most important Fathers.
	www.theandros.com /review-patro.html (1384 words)

	Commentaries on Aristotle
		Philoponus: On Aristotle's on Coming-To-Be and Perishing 1.6-2.4 by Simplicius and John Philoponus, edited and translated with introduction and notes by C.J.G. Williams (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, Cornell University Press).
		Beginning at 1329,16 he presents and argues vigorously against several of Philoponus' own arguments which appeared in a lost work whose title is unknown, that the heavenly bodies are perishable, that they do not by their own nature possess infinite power, and that they possess finite power and hence are perishable.
		Simplicius relates Philoponus' belief in the perishability of the world to the tradition that the heavens were created 5500 years before the birth of Christ and that God will bring the world to an end in its six‑thousandth year (cf.
	www.wordtrade.com /philosophy/ancient/commentariesaristotle.htm (10380 words)

	Christian Influences In The Sciences Many of the sciences derive directly from the work of a Christian or were greatly ...
		Philoponus suggested (on creationist grounds) that the stars are made of the same essential matter as the earth and emit light because they burn.
		John Ambrose Fleming, who leaned to the evangelical wing of the Church of England, was not only a Christian, but a first-rate pioneer in electronics, inventor of various items, including a "bridge" and electron tubes which were essential to the development of the field.
		In the face of furious contradiction, John Philoponus, a Christian philosopher of the 6th century, CLAIMED that vacuum existed between the stars.
	www.believersweb.org /view.cfm?ID=961 (4498 words)

	John Philoponus and the Controversies over Chalcedon in the Sixth Century
		On the eve of the Council of Constantinople in 553, John Philoponus, the Alexandrian philosopher and prolific commentator on Aristotle, entered the controversy over the Chalcedonian definition of faith.
		This monograph elucidates the argument of Philoponus' Arbiter by locating it within the Christological discussions of the fifth and sixth centuries and by highlighting its indebtedness to the Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle.
		The Christian reception of an Aristotelian philosophy in the sixth century facilitated the emergence of a 'scholastic' theology, of which Philoponus is an important representative.
	www.peeters-leuven.be /boekoverz.asp?nr=7273 (172 words)

	The Flat Earth Myth by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
		Cosmas’ contemporary John Philoponus (490–570) sharply criticized his work.
		John Philoponus adopted the view of St. Augustine before him (and the view that would be expressed by Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas after him) that Christians should refrain from making statements about the physical world that were at odds with reason, since they would only bring their faith into contempt and disrepute.
		Some scholars actually used to argue that the views of Cosmas Indicopleustes were responsible for the alleged edge-of-the-earth fears of fifteenth-century navigators, even though Cosmas was completely unknown in the fifteenth century.
	www.lewrockwell.com /woods/woods46.html (1561 words)

	The Bibliotheca or Myriobiblion of PHOTIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		John III Scholasticus (the lawyer), bishop of Constantinople (565-577).
		This is that Theodore of Mopsuestia, from whom on several occasions John Philoponus (as the latter himself says) demanded a serious explanation of his method of interpretation in his own work on the Creation.
		This justifies the conclusion that the author is John, presbyter of Aegae, a heretic who wrote a special attack on the council of Chalcedon.
	www.vitaphone.org /history/photius.html (14137 words)

	Amazon.com: John Philoponus' New Definition of Prime Matter: Aspects of Its Background in Neoplatonism and the Ancient ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The author argues that Philoponus' definition was motivated primarily by philosophical problems in Neoplatonism.
		Philoponus employs the explanation of growth, the interpretation of Aristotle's category theory and the notions of formlessness and potentiality to substantiate his definition.
		It is demonstrated for the first time that Plotinus' view of matter exerted considerable influence on both Philoponus and Simplicius.
	www.amazon.com /John-Philoponus-Definition-Prime-Matter/dp/9004104461 (732 words)

	Impetus Force
		It was based on observations about the motion of objects that had been made by the Greek writer John Philoponus in the sixth century A.D. John's intellectual sense was on the right track, but he never fully developed the reason why it should be as he thought.
		Aristotle's assertion that it was the air that provided the motive force responsible for the violent motion of a body disturbed Philoponus.
		Buridan gave this hypothetical force of Philoponus the name "impetus" which depends upon both the speed and the quantity of the mass in a body.
	members.tripod.com /~jimmar/index-6.html (3563 words)

	Ammonius (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		On Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption (in GC): ‘John the Grammarian of Alexandria's school annotations from the seminars of Ammonius son of Hermeias with some of his own observations on the first of the books On Generation and Corruption of Aristotle’.
		On Aristotle's On the Soul (in DA; authorship of the commentary on Book III is disputed): ‘John of Alexandria's school annotations from the seminars of Ammonius son of Hermeias with some of his own observations on Aristotle's On Soul’.
		The titles of three of Philoponus' Aristotle courses do not mention Ammonius, and these were probably perceived as representing rather the lectures of Philoponus than those of Ammonius.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/ammonius (5023 words)

	Open Directory - Society:Philosophy:Philosophers:P
		He is widely attributed with having originated the theory of spherical universe.
		Description: John Philoponus (John the Grammarian, John of Alexandria, Johannes Grammaticus, Johannes Alexandrinus), c.
		John Philoponus (John the Grammarian, John of Alexandria, Johannes Grammaticus, Johannes Alexandrinus), c.
	dmoz.org /Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/P/desc.html (1011 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aristotle
		In the fifth and sixth centuries the chief commentators were John Philoponus and Simplicius, the latter of whom was teaching at Athens when, in the year 529, the Athenian School was closed by order of the Emperor Justinian.
		The exceptions to be found were John of Damascus, who in his "Source of Science" epitomizes Aristotle's "Categories" and "Metaphysics", and Porphyry's" Introduction"; Nemesius, Bishop of Emesa, who in his "Nature of Man" follows in the footsteps of John of Damascus; and Boethius, who translated several of Aristotle's logical treatises into Latin.
		These translations and Porphyry's "Introduction" were the only Aristotelean works known to the first of the Schoolmen, that is to say, to the Christian philosophers of Western Europe from the ninth to the twelfth century.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01713a.htm (5706 words)

	The Spiritual Lives of Great Environmentalists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dineen, Michael P. The American wilderness in the words of John Muir.
		John Philoponus, 6th century Alexandrian grammarian, Christian theologian, and scientific philosopher.
		Brother sun, sister moon: a neo-thomist personalistic explication of the metaphysical grounds for St. Francis’ canticle.
	egj.lib.uidaho.edu /egj23/johnson1.html (1638 words)

	Some remarks on cosmology
		John Byl, Ph.D. Rational proofs for the existence of God date back to at least the time of Plato.
		Many of the arguments against an actual infinity can be traced back to Aristotle, although the Christian philosopher John Philoponus seems to have been the first to apply them (in 529 A.D.) to a demonstration of the finite age of the universe.
		Philoponus' proofs for creation were taken up and further developed in the 9
	www.geocentricity.com /ba1/no76/cosmol.html (2631 words)

	Wallace Matson and the Crude Cosmological Argument
		He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife Jan and their two teenage children Charity and John.
		At the age of sixteen as a junior in high school, he first heard the message of the Christian gospel and yielded his life to Christ.
		{3} See Herbert A, Davidson, 'John Philoponus as a Source of Medieval Islamic and Jewish Proofs of Creation', Journal of the American Oriental Society 89 (1969), pp.
	www.leaderu.com /offices/billcraig/docs/matson.html (3724 words)

	Photius: Bibliotheca. Table of contents
		John Philoponus, Against the Fourth Council [CPG 7271]
		John Philoponus, On the Trinity against John Scholasticus [CPG 7268]
		Lucius of Charinus, Circuits of the Apostles: Acts of Peter, Acts of John, Acts of Andrew, Acts of Thomas, Acts of Paul
	www.tertullian.org /fathers/photius_01toc.htm (905 words)

	Photius, Bibliotheca or Myriobiblion (Cod. 1-165, Tr. Freese)
		The first and second counts were then investigated, after which the synod proceeded to deal with the case of the bishops Heraclides and Palladius of Helenopolis.
		The monk John, mentioned by the deacon John in the second charge against Chrysostom, presented a memorial accusing Heraclides of being a follower of Origen, and of having been arrested at Caesarea in Palestine for the theft of the clothes of Aquilinus the deacon.
		He relates how Antonina, the wife of Belisarius, making use of John's daughter Euphemia, deceived him and convicted him of conspiring against the emperor; also how, when Eusebius, bishop of Cyzicus, was treacherously murdered, John, being suspected of the crime, was scourged and ignominiously banished.
	www.ccel.org /p/pearse/morefathers/photius_03bibliotheca.htm (17365 words)

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