Physics

Aristotle. (2018). Physics.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2018

Link

https://archive.org/details/aristotlephysics0000aris

Cited from

philosophy

Cited by

4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Causality

  • This sourceBook VIII argues every motion requires a mover and an infinite regress of moved movers is impossible, so an unmoved mover exists as the ultimate source of motion.

• Infinite Regress
  • Cosmological arguments and first-cause reasoning (Aristotle's unmoved mover,
• Teleology
  • The essential commitment, framed canonically by Aristotle in the Physics, is that certain explanatory work is done by citing ends rather than only by citing preceding causes — that "why does the heart pump blood?" admits a functional answer ("in order to circulate oxygen"), what Aristotle (Physics II.3, II.7) calls "that for the sake of which", distinct from a mechanistic one ("contracting muscle fibers driven by electrical impulses") and not reducible to it without loss.

Domain-specific

• Four Causes
  • Aristotle presents the scheme in Physics II.3 and Metaphysics V.2.

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