Seite - 547 - in The Complete Aristotle
Bild der Seite - 547 -
Text der Seite - 547 -
thrown in just the same manner. Or if we reject this assumption we must say
that one kind of motion is derived from another; e.g. that that which is
causing locomotion is in process of increase, that which is causing this
increase is in process of being altered by something else, and that which is
causing this alteration is in process of suffering some different kind of
motion. But the series must stop somewhere, since the kinds of motion are
limited; and if we say that the process is reversible, and that that which is
causing alteration is in process of locomotion, we do no more than if we had
said at the outset that that which is causing locomotion is in process of
locomotion, and that one who is teaching is in process of being taught: for it
is clear that everything that is moved is moved by the movent that is further
back in the series as well as by that which immediately moves it: in fact the
earlier movent is that which more strictly moves it. But this is of course
impossible: for it involves the consequence that one who is teaching is in
process of learning what he is teaching, whereas teaching necessarily implies
possessing knowledge, and learning not possessing it. Still more unreasonable
is the consequence involved that, since everything that is moved is moved by
something that is itself moved by something else, everything that has a
capacity for causing motion has as such a corresponding capacity for being
moved: i.e. it will have a capacity for being moved in the sense in which one
might say that everything that has a capacity for making healthy, and
exercises that capacity, has as such a capacity for being made healthy, and that
which has a capacity for building has as such a capacity for being built. It will
have the capacity for being thus moved either immediately or through one or
more links (as it will if, while everything that has a capacity for causing
motion has as such a capacity for being moved by something else, the motion
that it has the capacity for suffering is not that with which it affects what is
next to it, but a motion of a different kind; e.g. that which has a capacity for
making healthy might as such have a capacity for learn. the series, however,
could be traced back, as we said before, until at some time or other we arrived
at the same kind of motion). Now the first alternative is impossible, and the
second is fantastic: it is absurd that that which has a capacity for causing
alteration should as such necessarily have a capacity, let us say, for increase. It
is not necessary, therefore, that that which is moved should always be moved
by something else that is itself moved by something else: so there will be an
end to the series. Consequently the first thing that is in motion will derive its
motion either from something that is at rest or from itself. But if there were
any need to consider which of the two, that which moves itself or that which
is moved by something else, is the cause and principle of motion, every one
would decide the former: for that which is itself independently a cause is
always prior as a cause to that which is so only in virtue of being itself
dependent upon something else that makes it so.
547
zurück zum
Buch The Complete Aristotle"
The Complete Aristotle
- Titel
- The Complete Aristotle
- Autor
- Aristotle
- Datum
- ~322 B.C.
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- PD
- Abmessungen
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Seiten
- 2328
- Schlagwörter
- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
- Kategorien
- Geisteswissenschaften
- International
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