Movers and elemental motions in aristotle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23246597 |
|---|---|
| Authors | István Bodnár (0000-0003-4981-4198, corresponding author), István M Bodnár |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Pages | 81-117 |
| Publication date | 1997-11-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XV (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198237600.003.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W3164483259 |
| ISBN | 9780198237600 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
is possible only if they are made of a material endowed with a nature for circular motion, whereas elsewhere—notably in the Physics and in the Metaphysics—he stresses that as any motion needs a mover, heavenly motions also will require a separate unmoved mover, ‘located’ outside them. The two suggestions may or may not be incompatible, but if someone wants to entertain the possibility that the ‘introduction of the transcendent mover ... was not a negation but the completion of the view developed in the De Caelo’, we should like to know how the components of the resulting scheme were supposed to interact. One of my objectives in what follows is to scrutinize whether elemental nature and unmoved mover could be two facets of the same theory. To do this I will have to maintain that the circular motion of the heavens is performed by a special, celestial stuff in Physics bk. 8 just as this special celestial stuff was called upon in
Cognitive science · Physics · Theoretical physics · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Historical Astronomy and Related Studies · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |