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Author Dimas, Panos

Title Aristotle Introduction, Translation, and Interpretative Essays
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (316 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I Introduction and Interpretative Essays -- 1 On Generation and Corruption II: An Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Generation, Corruption, and the Elements in GC I and II -- 1.3 Generation, Corruption, and the Elements Beyond GC -- 1.4 GC II in Outline -- 1.5 A Coda on Prime Matter -- 2 On Generation and Corruption II 1 -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Need for an Investigation of the Elements
2.3 Criticisms of Anaximander and the Timaeus -- 2.4 Aristotle's Theory: Matter, Contrariety, and the Primary Bodies -- 3 On Generation and Corruption II 2 -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Tangible Contrarieties as Principles of Perceptible Bodies (329b6-16) -- 3.3 Aristotle's First Reduction (329b16-32) -- 3.4 Aristotle's Second Reduction (329b32-330a24) -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- 4 On Generation and Corruption II 3 -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 What Are the ''Elements''? -- 4.3 What Are the ''Apparent Simple Bodies''? -- 4.4 The Survey of Predecessors -- 4.5 Fire and Fiery Things, Air and Airy Things
4.6 Proper Places and Qualities of the Simple Bodies -- 4.7 Conclusion -- 5 On Generation and Corruption II 4 -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 All Simple Bodies by Nature Change into One Another -- 5.3 First Mechanism -- 5.4 Second Mechanism -- 5.5 Third Mechanism -- 5.6 An Impossible Pairing for the Third Mechanism -- 5.7 Conclusion -- 6 On Generation and Corruption II 5 -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 First Argument (GC II 5, 332a6-20) -- 6.3 Second Argument (GC II 5, 332a20-26) -- 6.3.1 Aristotle's Description of the Intermediate -- 6.3.2 Aristotle Against the Intermediate
6.4 A Single Body as Origin (GC II 5, 332b5-333a15) -- 6.4.1 Extremities as Principles -- 6.4.2 The Intermediates -- 6.4.3 Infinite Contrarieties -- 6.4.3.1 Adding Contrarieties -- 6.4.3.2 Infinite Contrarieties -- 6.5 Aristotle's Positive Account in GC II 5 -- 7 On Generation and Corruption II 6 -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Comparability and Change -- 7.2.1 Quantitative Comparisons -- 7.2.2 Qualitative Comparisons -- 7.3 Nature and Chance in Generation -- 7.4 The Principles of Movement -- 7.5 The Soul -- 8 On Generation and Corruption II 7 -- 8.1 The Place and Significance of GC II 7
8.2 Mixture in GC I 10 -- 8.3 Aristotle and the Empedoclean: Elemental Transformation and Common Matter -- 8.4 The Empedoclean Case -- 8.5 The Aristotelian Case: The Aporia -- 8.6 The Aristotelian Case: The Solution -- 8.7 The Nature of Elemental Mixtures: Uniformity and Stratification -- 9 On Generation and Corruption II 8 -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Every Simple Body Will Be Present in Every Composite Body -- 9.3 Nourishment as Additional Evidence -- 10 On Generation and Corruption II 9 -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Scope of Generation and Corruption
Summary Generation and Corruption II, a foundational text, develops Aristotle's theory of the elements, essential for his natural philosophy
Notes Description based upon print version of record
10.2.1 The Place of GC II 9 in Aristotle's Account of the Causes of Generation and Corruption
Form Electronic book
Author Falcon, Andrea
Kelsey, Sean
ISBN 9781009239943
1009239945