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These absurdities follow, and it also follows that the contrary element,
whether it is plurality or the unequal, i.e. the great and small, is the bad-itself.
(Hence one thinker avoided attaching the good to the One, because it would
necessarily follow, since generation is from contraries, that badness is the
fundamental nature of plurality; while others say inequality is the nature of
the bad.) It follows, then, that all things partake of the bad except one—the
One itself, and that numbers partake of it in a more undiluted form than
spatial magnitudes, and that the bad is the space in which the good is realized,
and that it partakes in and desires that which tends to destroy it; for contrary
tends to destroy contrary. And if, as we were saying, the matter is that which
is potentially each thing, e.g. that of actual fire is that which is potentially fire,
the bad will be just the potentially good.
All these objections, then, follow, partly because they make every principle
an element, partly because they make contraries principles, partly because
they make the One a principle, partly because they treat the numbers as the
first substances, and as capable of existing apart, and as Forms.
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If, then, it is equally impossible not to put the good among the first
principles and to put it among them in this way, evidently the principles are
not being correctly described, nor are the first substances. Nor does any one
conceive the matter correctly if he compares the principles of the universe to
that of animals and plants, on the ground that the more complete always
comes from the indefinite and incomplete-which is what leads this thinker to
say that this is also true of the first principles of reality, so that the One itself
is not even an existing thing. This is incorrect, for even in this world of
animals and plants the principles from which these come are complete; for it
is a man that produces a man, and the seed is not first.
It is out of place, also, to generate place simultaneously with the
mathematical solids (for place is peculiar to the individual things, and hence
they are separate in place; but mathematical objects are nowhere), and to say
that they must be somewhere, but not say what kind of thing their place is.
Those who say that existing things come from elements and that the first of
existing things are the numbers, should have first distinguished the senses in
which one thing comes from another, and then said in which sense number
comes from its first principles.
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- The Complete Aristotle
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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