In this book, Aristotle sets out to define virtue. Complete definitions consist of a genus (matter), specific difference (form), agent, and end. He establishes the genus as hexis (disposition) by first considering the various principles in the soul, the specific
Chapter 1 – What are Goods?
There are many ends or goods because each work, art, inquiry has an end its directed to and these ends are all for a telos/good.
Every action that a human being does is for the
Since 2004, the University of Fribourg has been offering a “philosophical retreat for executive staff” to some 15 candidates, aged between 40 and 50. “Before they came here, a lot of participants had had ‘toolbox training’ and were satisfied, but
Chapter 1 – The need for common sense
Since the senses perceive each other’s objects incidentally whenever they are directed at one moment to two different qualities (because they form a unity), and since, the the assertion of the identity
Chapter 1 – The Definition of Soul – Cause to Effect
In this first chapter, Aristotle claims matter and form correspond to body and soul, because a living thing is a natural body that exhibits the characteristics of sense and nutrition.
Chapter 1 – The Plan of Study of the Soul
Sentence: Since activities and powers of soul (form) appear to always involve the body (matter), and since the natural philosopher studies form in matter (properties), the natural philosopher should study
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Motion can be divided into species (Book V). But it can also be divided into quantitative parts. It belongs to science of nature to discuss quantitative parts because every mobile being is body.
Chapter
Chapter 1 – Types of Change, and only subject to subject change is motion technically.
what causes the motion, that which is in motion, that in which motion takes place (time), that from which, and that to which it proceeds.
Place
The definition of place as the innermost surface of a motionless body leads to four different distinctions:
Common place – nearest container that is at rest relative to the body in question
Proper place – is equal to
Change is the genus of motion/movement. Since movement is found in all of the categories, and since what is in all of the categories must transcend them, then movement transcends the categories and is prior. That leaves only potency and