{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4015.tlg005.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4015.tlg005.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4015.tlg005.local001","title":"in Aristotelis Meteorologicorum librum primum commentarium","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"John Philoponus","authorityName":"Joannes PHILOPONUS Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4015-joannes-philoponus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4015-joannes-philoponus/","editors":["Michael Hayduck"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"In Aristotelis meteorologicorum librum primum commentarium","edition":null,"publisher":"Reimer","place":"Berlin","date":"1901","volume":"14.1","series":"Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":["University of Leipzig"],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"http://www.archive.org/stream/commentariaina14pt13akaduoft#page/n13/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"John Philoponus. in Aristotelis Meteorologicorum librum primum commentarium. ed. Michael Hayduck. In Aristotelis meteorologicorum librum primum commentarium, Berlin, Reimer, 1901. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4015.tlg005.local001","excerpt":"Εἴρηται μὲν ἤδη καὶ πρότερον ἡμῖν ὡς εἰκότως τὴν εἰς δύο τομὴν ἡ φιλοσοφία δέχεται, εἴς τε τὸ πρακτικὸν καὶ εἰς τὸ θεωρητικόν, διότι καὶ αἱ τῆς ἡμετέρας ψυχῆς δυνάμεις ὑπάρχουσι δύο, ζωτική τε καὶ θεωρητική, ἃς ἡ φιλοσοφία κοσμεῖν ἐθέλει καὶ τελειοῦν, τὴν μὲν δι’ ἀρετῆς, τὴν δὲ διὰ τῆς τῶν ὄντων γνώσεως· τελειοῦται γὰρ ἕκαστον τὸ ἑαυτοῦ τέλος ἀπολαμβάνον δι’ ὃ γέγονεν. ὅθεν καὶ ὁμοίωσις θεῷ κατὰ τὸ δυνατὸν ἡ φιλοσοφία εἶναι λέγεται· καὶ γὰρ τῶν θείων ἐνεργειῶν αἰ μὲν ἀπάντων εἰσὶ γνωστικαὶ τῶν ὄντων, αἰ δὲ δημιουργικαὶ τούτων καὶ προνοητικαί. τῶν δ’ ἐνεργειῶν ἡμῶν ἑκατέραν, θεωρίαν φημὶ καὶ πρᾶξιν, ὑποδύεταί τις φαυλότης, τὴν μὲν θεωρίαν τὸ ψεῦδος, τὴν δὲ πρᾶξιν ἡ κακία. ἐδέησεν οὖν ὀργάνου τινὸς διαιρετικοῦ τῇ φιλοσοφίᾳ, ἐν μὲν τῇ θεωρίᾳ τοῦ τὸ ψεῦδος διακρίνοντος τῆς ἀληθείας, ἐν δὲ τῇ πράξει τὴν κακίαν τῆς ἀρετῆς, ὡς ἀμέλει καὶ τῷ τέκτονι στάθμη τε καὶ κανὼν ἐπινενόηται, δι’ οὗ τὸ…","divisions":[{"label":"IOANNIS PHILOPONI IN METEOROLOGICORUM","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4015.tlg005.local001/#tlg4015-tlg005-local001-1"},{"label":"INDICES","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4015.tlg005.local001/#tlg4015-tlg005-local001-indices"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4015.tlg005.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4015.tlg005.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4015/tlg005/local001.json.gz"}}