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of existing.
The mover too is moved, as has been said-every mover, that is, which is
capable of motion, and whose immobility is rest-when a thing is subject to
motion its immobility is rest. For to act on the movable as such is just to move
it. But this it does by contact, so that at the same time it is also acted on.
Hence we can define motion as the fulfilment of the movable qua movable,
the cause of the attribute being contact with what can move so that the mover
is also acted on. The mover or agent will always be the vehicle of a form,
either a âthisâ or âsuchâ, which, when it acts, will be the source and cause of
the change, e.g. the full-formed man begets man from what is potentially
man.
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The solution of the difficulty that is raised about the motion-whether it is in
the movable-is plain. It is the fulfilment of this potentiality, and by the action
of that which has the power of causing motion; and the actuality of that which
has the power of causing motion is not other than the actuality of the
movable, for it must be the fulfilment of both. A thing is capable of causing
motion because it can do this, it is a mover because it actually does it. But it is
on the movable that it is capable of acting. Hence there is a single actuality of
both alike, just as one to two and two to one are the same interval, and the
steep ascent and the steep descent are one-for these are one and the same,
although they can be described in different ways. So it is with the mover and
the moved.
This view has a dialectical difficulty. Perhaps it is necessary that the
actuality of the agent and that of the patient should not be the same. The one
is âagencyâ and the other âpatiencyâ; and the outcome and completion of the
one is an âactionâ, that of the other a âpassionâ. Since then they are both
motions, we may ask: in what are they, if they are different? Either (a) both
are in what is acted on and moved, or (b) the agency is in the agent and the
patiency in the patient. (If we ought to call the latter also âagencyâ, the word
would be used in two senses.)
Now, in alternative (b), the motion will be in the mover, for the same
statement will hold of âmoverâ and âmovedâ. Hence either every mover will
be moved, or, though having motion, it will not be moved.
If on the other hand (a) both are in what is moved and acted on-both the
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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