Self-Motion : : From Aristotle to Newton / / ed. by James G. Lennox, Mary Louise Gill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Freeland, Cynthia A.,; Furley, David,; Gill, Mary Louise,; Hahm, David E.,; Judson, Lindsay,; King, Peter,; Kosman, Aryeh,; McGuire, J. E.,; Meyer, Susan Sauvé,; Normore, Calvin G.,; Shields, Christopher,; Wedin, Michael V.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gill, Mary Louise,; Lennox, James G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5197
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.) :; 6 line illus.

The concept of self-motion is not only fundamental in Aristotle's argument for the Prime Mover and in ancient and medieval theories of nature, but it is also central to many theories of human agency and moral responsibility. In this collection of mostly new essays, scholars of classical, Hellen...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I. Aristotle
• Chapter 1. Self-Movers
• Chapter 2. Aristotle on Self-Motion
• Chapter 3. Aristotle on Perception, Appetition, and Self-Motion
• Chapter 4. Self-Movement and External Causation
• Chapter 5. Aristotle on the Mind’s Self-Motion
• Chapter 6. Mind and Motion in Aristotle
• Chapter 7. Aristotle’s Prime Mover
• Chapter 8. Heavenly Motion and the Unmoved Mover
• Part II. The Aristotle Tradition
• Chapter 9. Self-Motion in Stoic Philosophy
• Chapter 10. Duns Scotus on the Reality of Self-Change
• Chapter 11. Ockham, Self-Motion, and the Will
• Chapter 12. Natural Motion and Its Causes: Newton on the “Vis Insita” of Bodies
• Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index Locorum
• General Index