The Order Of Nature In Aristotle S Physics

Author : Helen S. Lang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521624533

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The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics by Helen S. Lang Pdf

This book enters into the point of view of the ancient world in order to explain how they saw the world, and to show what arguments were used by Aristotle to support this view. Lang demonstrates a new method for reading the texts of Aristotle by revealing a continuous line of argument running from the Physics to De Caelo, and analyzes a group of arguments that are almost always treated in isolation from one another to reveal their elegance and coherence. She establishes the case that we must rethink our approach to Aristotle's physical science and Aristotelian texts.

Author : Sarah Waterlow,Sarah Broadie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0198244827

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Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics by Sarah Waterlow,Sarah Broadie Pdf

This examination of Aristotle's concept of natural substance and its implications for change, process, agency, teleology, mathematical continuity, and eternal motion illustrates the conceptual power of Aristotle's metaphysics of nature along with its scientific limitations and internal tensions.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Chance
ISBN : 0198720262

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Aristotle's Physics by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Helen S. Lang
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791410838

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Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties by Helen S. Lang Pdf

This book considers the concepts that lay at the heart of natural philosophy and physics from the time of Aristotle until the fourteenth century. The first part presents Aristotelian ideas and the second part presents the interpretation of these ideas by Philoponus, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, and Duns Scotus. Across the eight chapters, the problems and texts from Aristotle that set the stage for European natural philosophy as it was practiced from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries are considered first as they appear in Aristotle and then as they are reconsidered in the context of later interests. The study concludes with an anticipation of Newton and the sense in which Aristotle's physics had been transformed.

Author : Joe Sachs
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813521920

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Aristotle's Physics by Joe Sachs Pdf

Aristotle's Physics is one of the least studied "great books"--physics has come to mean something entirely different than Aristotle's inquiry into nature, and stereotyped Medieval interpretations have buried the original text. Sach's translation is really the only one that I know of that attempts to take the reader back to the text itself. -- Leon Cass, University of Chicago

Author : Andrea Falcon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521854393

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Aristotle and the Science of Nature by Andrea Falcon Pdf

Exploration of Aristotle's philosophy of nature in the light of scholarly insights.

Author : Ursula Coope
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191530128

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Time for Aristotle by Ursula Coope Pdf

What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.

Author : Diana Quarantotto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107197787

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Aristotle's Physics Book I by Diana Quarantotto Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth study of Physics I, the first book of Aristotle's foundational treatise on natural philosophy. While the text has inspired a rich scholarly literature, this is the first volume devoted solely to it to have been published for many years, and it includes a new translation of the Greek text. Book I introduces Aristotle's approach to topics such as matter and form, and discusses the fundamental problems of the study of natural science, examining the theories of previous thinkers including Parmenides. Leading experts provide fresh interpretations of key passages and raise new problems. The volume will appeal to scholars and students of ancient philosophy as well as to specialists working in the fields of philosophy and the history of science.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Physics
ISBN : 0198240929

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Physics by Aristotle Pdf

The eighth book of Aristotle's Physics is the culmination of his theory of nature. He discusses not just physics, but the origins of the universe and the metaphysical foundations of cosmology and physical science. He moves from the discussion of motion in the cosmos to the identification of a single source and regulating principle of all motion, and so argues for the existence of a first 'unmoved mover'. Daniel Graham offers a clear, accurate new translation of this key text in the history of Western thought, and accompanies the translation with a careful philosophical commentary to guide the reader towards an understanding of the wealth of important and influential arguments and ideas that Aristotle puts forward.

Author : Chelsea C. Harry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3319178350

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Chronos in Aristotle's Physics by Chelsea C. Harry Pdf

This book is a contribution both to Aristotle studies and to the philosophy of nature, and not only offers a thorough text based account of time as modally potentiality in Aristotle's account, but also clarifies the process of "actualizing time" as taking time and looks at the implications of conceiving a world without actual time. It speaks to the resurgence of interest in Aristotle's natural philosophy and will become an important resource for anyone interested in Aristotle's theory of time, of its relationship to Aristotle's larger project in the Physics, and to time's place in the broader scope of Aristotelian natural science. Graduate students and scholars researching in this area especially will find the authors arguments provocative, a welcome addition to other recent publications on Aristotle's Treatise on Time.

Author : Mariska Leunissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107031463

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Aristotle's Physics by Mariska Leunissen Pdf

This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle.

Author : Benjamin Morison
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199247912

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On Location by Benjamin Morison Pdf

On Location is the first book in English exclusively devoted to a highly significant doctrine in the history of philosophy and science--Aristotle's account of place in the Physics. The central question which Aristotle aims to answer is: What is it for something to be somewhere? Ben Morison examines how Aristotle works from simple observations about replacement to a definition of the notion of the place of a body--the inner limit of that body's surroundings. Thisdefinition lies at the heart of what we say about places, for instance when we say that we cannot be in two places at once, or that two bodies cannot be in the same place at the same time. Morison also assesses Aristotle's brilliant, though often obscure, criticisms of rival theories.This authoritative exposition and defence of Aristotle's account of place not only allows it to be properly understood in the wider context of the Physics, but also demonstrates that it is of enduring philosophical interest and value.

Author : Daniel A. Di Liscia,Eckhard Kessler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351917957

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Method and Order in Renaissance Philosophy of Nature by Daniel A. Di Liscia,Eckhard Kessler Pdf

The volume results from a seminar sponsored by the ’Foundation for Intellectual History’ at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, in 1992. Starting with the theory of regressus as displayed in its most developed form by William Wallace, these papers enter the vast field of the Renaissance discussion on method as such in its historical and systematical context. This is confined neither to the notion of method in the strict sense, nor to the Renaissance in its exact historical limits, nor yet to the Aristotelian tradition as a well defined philosophical school, but requires a new scholarly approach. Thus - besides Galileo, Zabarella and their circles, which are regarded as being crucial for the ’emergence of modern science’ in the end of the 16th century - the contributors deal with the ancient and medieval origins as well as with the early modern continuity of the Renaissance concepts of method and with ’non-regressive’ methodologies in the various approaches of Renaissance natural philosophy, including the Lutheran and Calvinist traditions.

Author : Chelsea C. Harry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319178349

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Chronos in Aristotle’s Physics by Chelsea C. Harry Pdf

This book is a contribution both to Aristotle studies and to the philosophy of nature, and not only offers a thorough text based account of time as modally potentiality in Aristotle’s account, but also clarifies the process of “actualizing time” as taking time and looks at the implications of conceiving a world without actual time. It speaks to the resurgence of interest in Aristotle’s natural philosophy and will become an important resource for anyone interested in Aristotle’s theory of time, of its relationship to Aristotle’s larger project in the Physics, and to time’s place in the broader scope of Aristotelian natural science. Graduate students and scholars researching in this area especially will find the authors arguments provocative, a welcome addition to other recent publications on Aristotle’s Treatise on Time. ​

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781804175729

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The Physics. Writings on Natural Philosophy (Concise Edition) by Aristotle Pdf

Aristotle's great work that laid the foundations for Galileo, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein's much later discoveries about the natural laws of life and the universe. In the philosophical language of Aristotle and the Greeks of Antiquity, 'Physics' roughly translates as 'the order of nature', covering what we would now differentiate as philosophy, science, politics, humanities and religion. One of Aristotle's great works, of which we here present an abridged edition, The Physics is an investigation into the nature of being, of the world and its place in the universe. Although philosophically much broader, it provides the foundation for the later work of Galileo and Isaac Newton, and prefigures Albert Einstein's breakthrough theories on time, space and the motion of stars. The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape of the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket guides designed to be both accessible and informative.