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thought that there is a form of pulling that arises in another way: that wood,
e.g. pulls fire in a manner different from that described above. But it makes
no difference whether that which pulls is in motion or is stationary when it is
pulling: in the latter case it pulls to the place where it is, while in the former it
pulls to the place where it was.) Now it is impossible to move anything either
from oneself to something else or something else to oneself without being in
contact with it: it is evident, therefore, that in all locomotion there is nothing
intermediate between moved and movent.
Nor again is there anything intermediate between that which undergoes and
that which causes alteration: this can be proved by induction: for in every case
we find that the respective extremities of that which causes and that which
undergoes alteration are adjacent. For our assumption is that things that are
undergoing alteration are altered in virtue of their being affected in respect of
their so-called affective qualities, since that which is of a certain quality is
altered in so far as it is sensible, and the characteristics in which bodies differ
from one another are sensible characteristics: for every body differs from
another in possessing a greater or lesser number of sensible characteristics or
in possessing the same sensible characteristics in a greater or lesser degree.
But the alteration of that which undergoes alteration is also caused by the
above-mentioned characteristics, which are affections of some particular
underlying quality. Thus we say that a thing is altered by becoming hot or
sweet or thick or dry or white: and we make these assertions alike of what is
inanimate and of what is animate, and further, where animate things are in
question, we make them both of the parts that have no power of sense-
perception and of the senses themselves. For in a way even the senses
undergo alteration, since the active sense is a motion through the body in the
course of which the sense is affected in a certain way. We see, then, that the
animate is capable of every kind of alteration of which the inanimate is
capable: but the inanimate is not capable of every kind of alteration of which
the animate is capable, since it is not capable of alteration in respect of the
senses: moreover the inanimate is unconscious of being affected by alteration,
whereas the animate is conscious of it, though there is nothing to prevent the
animate also being unconscious of it when the process of the alteration does
not concern the senses. Since, then, the alteration of that which undergoes
alteration is caused by sensible things, in every case of such alteration it is
evident that the respective extremities of that which causes and that which
undergoes alteration are adjacent. Thus the air is continuous with that which
causes the alteration, and the body that undergoes alteration is continuous
with the air. Again, the colour is continuous with the light and the light with
the sight. And the same is true of hearing and smelling: for the primary
movent in respect to the moved is the air. Similarly, in the case of tasting, 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