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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... materials without which this book would have been impossible were ac- quired for me through the alchemical skills of ... material from §6 were given as talks at the University of British Columbia and at Yale University . I thank Paul ...
... materials without which this book would have been impossible were ac- quired for me through the alchemical skills of ... material from §6 were given as talks at the University of British Columbia and at Yale University . I thank Paul ...
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... more . In Arriaga's widely circulated Cursus of 1632 , material coming from Physics 1-3 occupies 172 of 250 pages in the Disputationes physicæ . textbooks : the marking of territory in the intellectual landscape [ 2 ] Physiologia.
... more . In Arriaga's widely circulated Cursus of 1632 , material coming from Physics 1-3 occupies 172 of 250 pages in the Disputationes physicæ . textbooks : the marking of territory in the intellectual landscape [ 2 ] Physiologia.
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... material substance . Matter and form , the two principles of substance , were ramified by the Aristotelians into a rather complicated layering of prime matter , quantity and dispositions , substantial form , and active powers . A host ...
... material substance . Matter and form , the two principles of substance , were ramified by the Aristotelians into a rather complicated layering of prime matter , quantity and dispositions , substantial form , and active powers . A host ...
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... material substance . There had already been a tendency , visible in Suárez , to ascribe to matter alone such accidents as quantity and figure , along with the qualities that " disposed " or " propor- tioned " matter to receive ...
... material substance . There had already been a tendency , visible in Suárez , to ascribe to matter alone such accidents as quantity and figure , along with the qualities that " disposed " or " propor- tioned " matter to receive ...
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... material . The Aris- totle of the Schools was the product of several centuries of refinement , whose guiding principle was that all the genuine works of Aristotle were effectively one , as if written in a day . One finds no trace in ...
... material . The Aris- totle of the Schools was the product of several centuries of refinement , whose guiding principle was that all the genuine works of Aristotle were effectively one , as if written in a day . One finds no trace in ...
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...