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Acknowledgements
This book is a slightly revised version of my dissertation, which was accepted
at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 2012. Above all, I would like to
thank my three supervisors Jonathan Beere, Ben Morison, and Christof
Rapp. My dissertation benefited greatly from working under their guidance
and I am most thankful for the generous support they have given me in many
different respects both while I was working on this project and afterwards. I
was especially fortunate to have had the opportunity to continually work
with Ben Morison while on a short stay in Oxford, during several months at
Princeton, and – despite being on the other side of the Atlantic – from my
desk in Erlangen. Our conversations and his numerous comments and sug-
gestions greatly improved my work both in detail and from a broader per-
spective and I am very grateful for his support and encouragement.
I also want to take this opportunity to thank Friedemann Buddensiek for
his constant support over the past few years and for helping me start my
inquiry into the priority of locomotion in the first place. Jacob Rosen, in
addition to discussing various ideas, read and critiqued an earlier draft of
chapter 7 and helped me clarify important points made there. Joshua Crone
read the entire work and made many helpful suggestions, for which he has
my sincere thanks. I am indebted to many other people for comments and
help of various kinds: Andreas Anagnostopoulos, Stephen Hamilton, Hen-
drik Lorenz, Marko Malink, Henry Mendell, Roman Rüttinger, Pieter
Sjoerd-Hasper, and the audiences at Berlin, Göttingen, Princeton, and
Würzburg to whom I had the opportunity to present parts of my work. I
wish to thank my fellow doctoral students in the Ancient Philosophy pro-
gram in Berlin as well as my colleagues first in Munich and later in Göttin-
gen for making my time and work in these places so pleasant.
I wrote my dissertation as a doctoral fellow at the Excellence Cluster
Topoi in Berlin and am thankful for its generous support. I would also like
to thank the editors of this series, in particular Dorothea Frede and Gisela
Striker, for accepting my book for publication.
I am especially grateful to my wife, Eva Odzuck, for her provocative claims
about Aristotle (and other things), continuous support and patience, and
much more, from the beginning right to the very end. Finally, I would like to
thank my parents for all they have given me. This book is dedicated to them.
Erlangen, July 2013 SO
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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