| Title | Philoponus and the Rise of Preclassical Dynamics |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1987 |
| Published in | Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science |
| Pages | 84-120 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Wolff, Michael |
| Editor(s) | Sorabji, Richard |
| Translator(s) |
| [Conclusion, p. 120]: If we are prepared to assume that the basic presuppositions of impetus theory can be traced back not to observational experience which Aristotle missed, but rather to a certain concept of man and to certain ethical principles, we need not attempt to explain the emergence of the theory solely by reference to new observations of falling bodies and the like. Is it not more appropriate to ask about the origin and kind of ethical problem to which impetus theory originally helped to provide an answer? The experience that forces are exhausted in all physical activities of human beings could have been just such a problem. Earlier society, which had left this experience chiefly to slaves, could not really have had such a problem. But, by the close of Antiquity, times were changing. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Yp0qD91RgSqorEu |
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| Title | Philoponus and the Rise of Preclassical Dynamics |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1987 |
| Published in | Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science |
| Pages | 84-120 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Wolff, Michael |
| Editor(s) | Sorabji, Richard |
| Translator(s) |
[Conclusion, p. 120]: If we are prepared to assume that the basic presuppositions of impetus theory can be traced back not to observational experience which Aristotle missed, but rather to a certain concept of man and to certain ethical principles, we need not attempt to explain the emergence of the theory solely by reference to new observations of falling bodies and the like. Is it not more appropriate to ask about the origin and kind of ethical problem to which impetus theory originally helped to provide an answer? The experience that forces are exhausted in all physical activities of human beings could have been just such a problem. Earlier society, which had left this experience chiefly to slaves, could not really have had such a problem. But, by the close of Antiquity, times were changing. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Yp0qD91RgSqorEu |
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