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things) would appear to be of old standing, though in different forms; for the
early thinkers made the two the active and the one the passive principle,
whereas some of the more recent maintain the reverse.
To suppose then that the elements are three in number would seem, from
these and similar considerations, a plausible view, as I said before. On the
other hand, the view that they are more than three in number would seem to
be untenable.
For the one substratum is sufficient to be acted on; but if we have four
contraries, there will be two contrarieties, and we shall have to suppose an
intermediate nature for each pair separately. If, on the other hand, the
contrarieties, being two, can generate from each other, the second contrariety
will be superfluous. Moreover, it is impossible that there should be more than
one primary contrariety. For substance is a single genus of being, so that the
principles can differ only as prior and posterior, not in genus; in a single
genus there is always a single contrariety, all the other contrarieties in it being
held to be reducible to one.
It is clear then that the number of elements is neither one nor more than two
or three; but whether two or three is, as I said, a question of considerable
difficulty.
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We will now give our own account, approaching the question first with
reference to becoming in its widest sense: for we shall be following the
natural order of inquiry if we speak first of common characteristics, and then
investigate the characteristics of special cases.
We say that one thing comes to be from another thing, and one sort of thing
from another sort of thing, both in the case of simple and of complex things. I
mean the following. We can say (1) âman becomes musicalâ, (2) what is ânot-
musical becomes musicalâ, or (3), the ânot-musical man becomes a musical
manâ. Now what becomes in (1) and (2)-âmanâ and ânot musicalâ-I call
simple, and what each becomes-âmusicalâ-simple also. But when (3) we say
the ânot-musical man becomes a musical manâ, both what becomes and what
it becomes are complex.
As regards one of these simple âthings that becomeâ we say not only âthis
becomes so-and-soâ, but also âfrom being this, comes to be so-and-soâ, as
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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