Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

126 ARISTOTLE upon by the great Arab philosophers. He dominated later medieval philosophy to such an extent that St. Thomas Aqui ...

INTRODUCTION 127 According to some scholars, these are not even Aristotle’s notes, but the notes of students collected by editor ...

128 ARISTOTLE and Christopher Shields,Aristotle(London: Routledge, 2006) also provide helpful overviews of Aristotle’s life and ...

PHYSICS 129 PHYSICS (in part) BOOKII Of the things that are, some are by nature, others through other causes: by nature are ani ...

130 ARISTOTLE arrangement according to convention and art, while the thinghood of it is that which remains continuously even whi ...

PHYSICS 131 belong to them because they pertain to natural bodies. On account of this also he sepa- rates them. For in his think ...

132 ARISTOTLE Bust of Aristotle,first century copy of Greek sculpture, Louvre. Using Aristotle’s Four Causes, we would say the m ...

PHYSICS 133 The causes then are meant in just about this many ways, and it happens, since they are meant in more than one way, t ...

134 ARISTOTLE particulars (as a sculptor to a statue, but this sculptor to this statue). Also the potencies belong to the potenc ...

PHYSICS 135 First, then, since we see some things always happening in a certain way, and others for the most part, it is clear ...

136 ARISTOTLE outcomes are of some magnitude. For this reason too, to come within a hairsbreadth of obtaining some great evil or ...

PHYSICS 137 and fortune are causes of things for which either intelligence or nature might have been responsible, whenever somet ...

138 ARISTOTLE and that what is cooled, becoming water, come down; when this happens, growing inci- dentally happens to the grain ...

PHYSICS 139 according to art in which what is done correctly is for the sake of something, but in the ones that miss the mark wh ...

140 ARISTOTLE the latter, despite the fact that were this not so, neither would the straight be as it is. But in things that com ...

METAPHYSICS(BOOKI) 141 sense in addition to memory. So the other animals live by images and memories, but have a small share of ...

142 ARISTOTLE Now it has been said in the writings on ethics what the difference is among art, demonstrative knowledge, and the ...

METAPHYSICS(BOOKI) 143 being of the whole. But someone who wonders and is at an impasse considers himself to be ignorant (for wh ...

144 ARISTOTLE inquiry about beings and philosophized about truth. For it is clear that they too speak of certain sources and cau ...

METAPHYSICS(BOOKI) 145 thing, were not at all displeased with their own accounts, but some of those who said it was one, as thou ...