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3.6 The sense of priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
3.7 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
4. Locomotion necessarily accompanies each of the other kinds of
change, but not vice versa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
4.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
4.2 What changes in quantity changes with respect to place . . . 73
4.2.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
4.2.2 What is growing moves to a larger place . . . . . . . 74
4.2.3 Change in place implies no change in the spatial order
of the subject’s parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
4.2.4 A possible objection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
4.2.5 Compatibility with the irreducibility of the kinds of
change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
4.2.6 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
4.3 What undergoes generation or corruption changes with
respect to place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
4.3.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
4.3.2 Generation and corruption in virtue of aggregation
and segregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
4.3.3 What aggregates or segregates must change with
respect to place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
4.3.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
4.4 What changes in quality changes with respect to place . . . . 98
4.4.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.4.2 What does it mean that condensation and rarefaction
are principles of quality? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
4.4.3 Every alteration involves a change in the four basic
qualities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
4.4.4 Every change in the four basic qualities involves con-
densation or rarefaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
4.4.5 Condensation and rarefaction are forms of aggrega-
tion and segregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
4.4.6 What changes in quality changes with respect to place 112
4.4.7 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
4.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
5. All changes depend on the first locomotion, but not vice versa . . 115
5.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
5.2 The unity of the eternal change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
5.2.1 Two ways in which change may be eternal . . . . . . 118
5.2.2 Why the eternal change must be one and continuous . 121
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The Priority of Locomotion in Aristotle’s Physics
- Titel
- The Priority of Locomotion in Aristotle’s Physics
- Autor
- Sebastian Odzuck
- Herausgeber
- Dorothea Frede
- Gisela Striker
- Verlag
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co
- Datum
- 2014
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9783647253060
- Abmessungen
- 15.5 x 23.2 cm
- Seiten
- 238
- Kategorien
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Naturwissenschaften Physik
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Acknowledgements 9
- 1. Introduction 10
- 2. The importance of the primary kind of change 14
- 3. Change in quality and quantity of living beings depends on loco-motion, but not vice versa 42
- 4. Locomotion necessarily accompanies each of the other kinds of change, but not vice versa 71
- 4.1 Overview 71
- 4.2 What changes in quantity changes with respect to place 73
- 4.3 What undergoes generation or corruption changes with respect to place 89
- 4.4 What changes in quality changes with respect to place 98
- 4.4.1 Overview 98
- 4.4.2 What does it mean that condensation and rarefaction are principles of quality? 100
- 4.4.3 Every alteration involves a change in the four basic qualities 104
- 4.4.4 Every change in the four basic qualities involves con- densation or rarefaction 108
- 4.4.5 Condensation and rarefaction are forms of aggregation and segregation 110
- 4.4.6 What changes in quality changes with respect to place 112
- 4.4.7 Conclusion 113
- 4.5 Conclusion 113
- 5. All changes depend on the first locomotion, but not vice versa 115
- 6. Locomotion has temporal priority 144
- 6.1 Overview 144
- 6.2 Locomotion has priority in time, since it is the only change eternals can undergo 146
- 6.3 Objection: Locomotion is the last of all changes in perishable things 148
- 6.4 Coming to be presupposes an earlier locomotion 150
- 6.5 The locomotion of the sun as a cause of generation 154
- 6.6 Conclusion 162
- 7. Locomotion is prior in essence 164
- 7.1 Locomotion is prior in essence, since it is last in coming to be 164
- 7.2 Locomotion alone preserves its subject’s essence 186
- 7.2.1 Overview 186
- 7.2.2 Locomotion does not change its subject’s being 188
- 7.2.3 Locomotion preserves its subject’s essence best 190
- 7.2.4 Making x depart from its essence by being part of a change in essence? 195
- 7.2.5 Change in quality or quantity in principle may result in a change in essence 202
- 7.3 Conclusion: Locomotion’s priority in essence 207
- 8. Conclusion 211
- Bibliography 220
- List of Abbreviations 223
- Index Locorum 221
- Index Nominum 223
- Index Rerum 221