Abstract
Philoponus (c. 485/490–570/575), the Christian grammarian, philosopher, and theologian, was a major figure of the Platonic School of Alexandria in the sixth century. He was interested in grammar, arithmetic, and astronomy, and he produced philosophical commentaries on Plato's and Aristotle's works as well as polemical philosophical treatises on the creation of the world (arguing for the temporality of the world). He is known for his critique against Aristotelian physics within the framework of which he phrased the notorious impetus theory. The corpus of his theological work survives mainly in Syriac translations. In these texts Philoponus exploits his philosophical methodology (based on Aristotle) and contributes to the Christological debates of his era by supplying arguments in favor of miaphysitism and tritheism.
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