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How can God know the future if future things are not actual? Would there be time if no change were to occur in the universe? What allows us to identify a direction in the order of changes independently of the series of instants in time? Aquinas answers all these questions in his commentary on Aristotle's Physics.According to him, only entities located in the present exist. The present is nothing but the intermediate between past and future points on the line of time. Time, in turn, is ontologically dependent on change, but despite being its measure, it is mind-independent: time is what...

With the exception of Paul Moraux’s Die Aristotelismus bei den Griechen (in German), the most recent books on the history of ancient Aristotelianism are H. Balthussen 2016 (The Peripatetics: Aristotle’s Heirs) and A. Falcon 2018 (Aristotelismo). Both works do not follow the chronological order followed by Moraux. This book, in turn, presents the development of Aristotelian philosophy diachronically, the first English volume that does so. The book takes a philosophical approach and presents all major philosophers against the backdrop of the most recent scholarship. The book’s chapters...