Aristotle on Change
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The document discusses Aristotle's work Physics and some of the key topics covered in the text. It addresses Aristotle's perspective on change as well as his response to other philosophers' notions of change. Aristotle believed three principles were necessary for change: an underlying subject, a lack, and a form. He also analyzed change in terms of four causes: material, formal, efficient, and final.
Aristotle on Change
- 2. INTRODUCTION PHYSICS THE BOOK PHYSICS BY ARISTOTLE WHY IS ARISTOTLE CONCERNED WITH PHYSICS
- 3. TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS PRESENTATION ARISTOTLE ON CHANGE THREE PRINCIPLES OF CHANGE FOUR CAUSES DIALECTIC TIME-MOTION
- 4. ARISTOTLE ON CHANGE DIFFERENT NOTIONS PERTAINING TO CHANGE FROM OTHER PHILOSOPHERS ARISTOTLES PERSPECTIVE ON CHANGE IN PHYSICS RESPONSE TO OTHER PHILOSOPHERS ACCIDENTAL AND SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE
- 5. NOTIONS AND PUZZLES ON CHANGE PLATO 1. HE NOTES THAT REAL THINGS DO NOT CHANGE AS CHANGE IS RESTRICTED TO THE REALMS OF APPEARANCES 2. THE PHYSICAL WORLD
- 6. NOTIONS AND PUZZLES ON CHANGE PARMENIDES 1. DENIES THE EXISTENCE OF CHANGE. 2. WHAT IS CANNOT COME TO BE SINCE IT ALREADY IS WHILE NOTHING CAN COME TO BE FROM WHAT IS NOT.
- 7. NOTIONS AND PUZZLES ON CHANGE WHAT IS CANNOT COME TO BE SINCE IT IS ALREADY WHILE NOTHING CAN COME TO BE FROM WHAT IS NOT
- 8. ARISTOTLES ACCOUNT ON CHANGE THE PREVIOUS STATEMENT RESULTS IN AN IMPASSE. BECAUSE FOR ALL THINGS THAT COME TO BE DO SO EITHER FROM WHAT IS OR WHAT IS NOT WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE
- 9. ARISTOTLES ACCOUNT ON CHANGE Conditions necessary for change an underlying subject a lack a form
- 10. ARISTOTLES ACCOUNT ON CHANGE Some bronze, raw and unshaped is turned into a statue
- 11. ARISTOTLES ACCOUNT ON CHANGE The material cause: that out of which, the bronze of a statue. The formal cause: the form, the account of what-it-is-to-be, the shape of a statue. The efficient cause: the primary source of the change or rest, e.g., the artisan, the art of bronze-casting the statue, the man who gives advice, the father of the child. The final cause: the end, that for the sake of which a thing is done, beauty in the statue.