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1 online resource |
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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 |
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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 -- 10.2.1 The Place of GC II 9 in Aristotle's Account of the Causes of Generation and Corruption -- 10.2.2 Opening Remarks and Puzzles -- 10.3 Aristotle's Opening Statement and the Need for an Efficient (aka Moving) Cause -- 10.4 Classes of Things -- 10.5 Celestial and Sublunary Substances Contrasted -- 10.5.1 Celestial Substances -- 10.5.2 Sublunary Substances, Matter, and Motion -- 10.6 The Form as an Agent of Motion and Plato's Phaedo -- 10.7 The Materialists -- 11 On Generation and Corruption II 10 -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Moving/Efficient Cause of Generation and Perishing (336a15-b26) -- 11.2.1 The Causal Role of Celestial Circular Motion -- 11.2.2 The Sun's Approach and Retreat as Moving Cause of Generation and Perishing |
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11.2.3 The Sun's Approach and Retreat as the Universal, and Substantial Form as the Specific, Moving Cause of Generation and Perishing -- 11.3 The Final Cause of Generation and Perishing (336b26-337a17) -- 11.3.1 Aristotle's Teleological Argument -- 11.3.2 The Cycle of Generation and Perishing as an Imitation of Celestial Circular Motion -- 11.4 Concluding Remarks -- 12 On Generation and Corruption II 11 -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Question (GC II 11, 337a34-b13) -- 12.3 The Answer (GC II 11, 334b14-338b5) -- 12.3.1 Conversion of Conditional Necessities (337b14-25) -- 12.3.2 Necessary and Everlasting (337b25-338a3) -- 12.3.3 Everlasting and Cyclical (338a3-17) -- 12.3.4 Application (338a17-b5) -- 12.4 The Difficulty (GC II 11, 338b6-19) -- Part II Translation -- Chapter 13 Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption Book II -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- References -- Subject Index -- Index of Passages |
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Generation and Corruption II is concerned with Aristotle's theory of the elements, their reciprocal transformations and the cause of their perpetual generation and corruption. These matters are essential to Aristotle's picture of the world, making themselves felt throughout his natural science, including those portions of it that concern living things. What is more, the very inquiry Aristotle pursues in this text, with its focus on definition, generality, and causation, throws important light on his philosophy of science more generally. This volume contains eleven new essays, one for each of the chapters of this Aristotelian text, plus a general introduction and an English translation of the Greek text. It gives substantial attention to an important and neglected text, and highlights its relevance to other topics of current and enduring interest |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 01, 2022) |
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Aristotle. De generatione et corruptione.
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De generatione et corruptione (Aristotle) fast |
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Causation -- Early works to 1800
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Science -- Early works to 1800.
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Causation
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Science
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Early works
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Electronic book
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Dimas, Panos, editor.
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Falcon, Andrea, editor.
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Kelsey, Sean, Ph.D., editor.
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Aristotle.
De generatione et corruptione. English.
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| ISBN |
9781009239936 |
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1009239937 |
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9781009239943 |
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1009239945 |
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