Title | Conceptions of Topos in Aristotle |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 1995 |
Published in | Concepts of space in Greek thought |
Pages | 121-191 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Algra, Keimpe A. |
Editor(s) | Algra, Keimpe A. |
Translator(s) |
The fourth book of Aristotle’s Physics contains what has come to be known as his ‘classical’ discussion of the problems concerning physical place. The definition of topos ultimately issuing from this discussion, viz. topos as the first unmoved boundary of the containing body, became with some exceptions canonical in the later Aristotelian tradition. However, not very surprisingly, spatial concepts also crop up in a number of other works: the Categories (Cat.), De Generatione et Corruptione (GC), and De Caelo (Gael.). A survey of the ways in which these works use spatial terms, in particular the term topos, will reveal important prima facie incon sistencies. The present chapter will deal with these various uses of topos and will try to fit them all into a more or less coherent picture. [Introduction, p. 121] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/pPjRv3XmCtIcB0p |
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Title | Problems in Aristotle's Theory of Place and Early Peripatetic Reactions |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 1995 |
Published in | Concepts of space in Greek thought |
Pages | 192-260 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Algra, Keimpe A. |
Editor(s) | Algra, Keimpe A. |
Translator(s) |
This text discusses problems in Aristotle's theory of place and early Peripatetic reactions. While Aristotle's theory of place was designed as a physical rather than a metaphysical theory, it has been criticized for having unsatisfactory arguments against rival conceptions and for being primarily a theory of the location of static bodies rather than playing a role in the explanation of motion. Additionally, Aristotle's conception of place as the limit of the surrounding body produced counter-intuitive consequences. The text explores two aporiai that Aristotle did not explicitly solve and the early Peripatetic discussions surrounding them. The first aporia is whether place may count as a cause, and the second is the ontological status of Aristotelian place. [introduction] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/bnZ5t4PjiFgDD2M |
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Title | Conceptions of Topos in Aristotle |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 1995 |
Published in | Concepts of space in Greek thought |
Pages | 121-191 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Algra, Keimpe A. |
Editor(s) | Algra, Keimpe A. |
Translator(s) |
The fourth book of Aristotle’s Physics contains what has come to be known as his ‘classical’ discussion of the problems concerning physical place. The definition of topos ultimately issuing from this discussion, viz. topos as the first unmoved boundary of the containing body, became with some exceptions canonical in the later Aristotelian tradition. However, not very surprisingly, spatial concepts also crop up in a number of other works: the Categories (Cat.), De Generatione et Corruptione (GC), and De Caelo (Gael.). A survey of the ways in which these works use spatial terms, in particular the term topos, will reveal important prima facie incon sistencies. The present chapter will deal with these various uses of topos and will try to fit them all into a more or less coherent picture. [Introduction, p. 121] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/pPjRv3XmCtIcB0p |
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Title | Problems in Aristotle's Theory of Place and Early Peripatetic Reactions |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 1995 |
Published in | Concepts of space in Greek thought |
Pages | 192-260 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Algra, Keimpe A. |
Editor(s) | Algra, Keimpe A. |
Translator(s) |
This text discusses problems in Aristotle's theory of place and early Peripatetic reactions. While Aristotle's theory of place was designed as a physical rather than a metaphysical theory, it has been criticized for having unsatisfactory arguments against rival conceptions and for being primarily a theory of the location of static bodies rather than playing a role in the explanation of motion. Additionally, Aristotle's conception of place as the limit of the surrounding body produced counter-intuitive consequences. The text explores two aporiai that Aristotle did not explicitly solve and the early Peripatetic discussions surrounding them. The first aporia is whether place may count as a cause, and the second is the ontological status of Aristotelian place. [introduction] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/bnZ5t4PjiFgDD2M |
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