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Again look at the case of the co-ordinates and inflected forms of the terms
in the thesis, both in demolishing and in establishing it. By co-ordinates’ are
meant terms such as the following: ‘Just deeds’ and the ‘just man’ are
coordinates of ‘justice’, and ‘courageous deeds’ and the ‘courageous man’ are
co-ordinates of courage. Likewise also things that tend to produce and to
preserve anything are called co-ordinates of that which they tend to produce
and to preserve, as e.g. ‘healthy habits’ are co-ordinates of ‘health’ and a
‘vigorous constitutional’ of a ‘vigorous constitution’ and so forth also in other
cases. ‘Co-ordinate’, then, usually describes cases such as these, whereas
‘inflected forms’ are such as the following: ‘justly’, ‘courageously’,
‘healthily’, and such as are formed in this way. It is usually held that words
when used in their inflected forms as well are co-ordinates, as (e.g.) ‘justly’ in
relation to justice, and ‘courageously’ to courage; and then ‘co-ordinate’
describes all the members of the same kindred series, e.g. ‘justice’, ‘just’, of a
man or an act, ‘justly’. Clearly, then, when any one member, whatever its
kind, of the same kindred series is shown to be good or praiseworthy, then all
the rest as well come to be shown to be so: e.g. if ‘justice’ be something
praiseworthy, then so will ‘just’, of a man or thing, and ‘justly’ connote
something praiseworthy. Then ‘justly’ will be rendered also ‘praiseworthily’,
derived will by the same inflexion from ‘the praiseworthy’ whereby ‘justly’ is
derived from ‘justice’.
Look not only in the case of the subject mentioned, but also in the case of
its contrary, for the contrary predicate: e.g. argue that good is not necessarily
pleasant; for neither is evil painful: or that, if the latter be the case, so is the
former. Also, if justice be knowledge, then injustice is ignorance: and if
‘justly’ means ‘knowingly’ and ‘skilfully’, then ‘unjustly’ means ‘ignorantly’
and ‘unskilfully’: whereas if the latter be not true, neither is the former, as in
the instance given just now: for ‘unjustly’ is more likely to seem equivalent to
‘skilfully’ than to ‘unskilfully’. This commonplace rule has been stated before
in dealing with the sequence of contraries; for all we are claiming now is that
the contrary of P shall follow the contrary of S.
Moreover, look at the modes of generation and destruction of a thing, and
at the things which tend to produce or to destroy it, both in demolishing and
in establishing a view. For those things whose modes of generation rank
among good things, are themselves also good; and if they themselves be
good, so also are their modes of generation. If, on the other hand, their modes
of generation be evil, then they themselves also are evil. In regard to modes of
destruction the converse is true: for if the modes of destruction rank as good
things, then they themselves rank as evil things; whereas if the modes of
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- ~322 B.C.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156