Physiologia: Natural Philosophy in Late Aristotelian and Cartesian ThoughtCornell University Press, 2000 - 426 pages Sixteenth-century Aristotelianism was the culmination of four centuries of commentary and criticism. Physiologia is one of the first books to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to that tradition in natural philosophy. In an incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene illuminates the continuities and disruptions between medieval and modern philosophy and promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of science emerged. |
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... Physics is likely to be disconcerted by the content of that work . Only in the seventh book will she feel entirely at home , when Aristotle at last gets down to the business of stating quantitative rules for the comparison of motions ...
... Physics is likely to be disconcerted by the content of that work . Only in the seventh book will she feel entirely at home , when Aristotle at last gets down to the business of stating quantitative rules for the comparison of motions ...
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... physics . He had , therefore , explicitly to confront the themes I have just laid out . To define matter as res ... physics of res extensa and its modes has been proven sufficient . A further consequence of the reduction is to eliminate ...
... physics . He had , therefore , explicitly to confront the themes I have just laid out . To define matter as res ... physics of res extensa and its modes has been proven sufficient . A further consequence of the reduction is to eliminate ...
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... Physics commen- taries , for example , a standard question on natural limits to quantity was typically put in the first book , long before the machinery needed to answer it has been encountered in the Physics itself . Here the ...
... Physics commen- taries , for example , a standard question on natural limits to quantity was typically put in the first book , long before the machinery needed to answer it has been encountered in the Physics itself . Here the ...
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... phy , was given by its place in Aristotle's system . Though there were con- troversies about the division and order of ... Phys . , Opera 4 : 464vff , and In Meta . , Opera 8 : 401ff . the like are treated in the Parva naturalia . After ...
... phy , was given by its place in Aristotle's system . Though there were con- troversies about the division and order of ... Phys . , Opera 4 : 464vff , and In Meta . , Opera 8 : 401ff . the like are treated in the Parva naturalia . After ...
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... Phys . " Pro- legomenon , " q2 ; Opera 4 : 6rb ) 11 I quote at length in part to show how comprehensive was the ... Physics commentary being a more polished work than the Logic . The Physics exhibits , by contrast with Toletus , greater ...
... Phys . " Pro- legomenon , " q2 ; Opera 4 : 6rb ) 11 I quote at length in part to show how comprehensive was the ... Physics commentary being a more polished work than the Logic . The Physics exhibits , by contrast with Toletus , greater ...
Contents
Natural Change | 17 |
Motus Potentia Actus | 21 |
21 Potentia and Actus | 24 |
22 Independent Existence of Motus | 34 |
23 Action and Passion | 40 |
24 Active and Passive Potentice | 46 |
Form Privation and Substance | 53 |
31 Principles of Change | 55 |
62 Existence of Ends | 177 |
63 Character of the Final Cause | 186 |
64 Teleological Reasoning | 200 |
Nature and Counternature | 212 |
71 The Uses of Nature | 213 |
72 Individual Natures | 227 |
73 Artifacts Human and Divine | 239 |
Bodies in Motion | 253 |
32 Substantial Form and Prime Matter | 64 |
33 Form as Substance | 76 |
Matter Quantity and Figure | 81 |
41 The Essence of Matter | 83 |
42 Quantity and Prime Matter | 97 |
43 Figure and Other Qualities | 109 |
The Structure of Physical Substance | 122 |
51 Matter and Form Distinguished | 124 |
52 Substantial Union | 134 |
Dispositions | 138 |
54 Substantial Form and Active Powers | 157 |
Finality and Final Causes | 168 |
61 Varieties of End | 171 |
Motion and Its Causes | 255 |
81 The Definition and Mode of Existence of Motion | 257 |
82 Persistence Conatus and Quantity of Motion | 272 |
The Problem of Force | 312 |
Parts of Matter | 342 |
91 Extensive Quantity and the Nature of Matter | 345 |
92 Substance and Space | 354 |
the Sufficiency of Extension | 377 |
World without Ends | 391 |
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Page 1 - Si les phénomènes ne sont pas enchaînés les uns aux autres, il n'ya point de philosophie. Les phénomènes seraient tous enchaînés, que l'état de chacun d'eux pourrait être sans permanence. Mais si l'état des êtres est dans une vicissitude perpétuelle ; si la nature est encore à l'ouvrage, malgré la chaîne qui lie les phénomènes, il n'ya point de philosophie. Toute notre science...