The Priority of Locomotion in Aristotle's Physics / Sebastian Odzuck

• Superior document: Hypomnemata : Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben ; Band 196
• VerfasserIn: Odzuck, Sebastian
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Hypomnemata. Untersuchungen zur antike und zu ihrem nachleben ; Band 196.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Die Arbeit setzt sich eingehend mit Aristoteles' These auseinander, die Ortsveränderung sei in vielerlei Hinsicht die wichtigste und grundlegendste Form von Veränderung und habe insofern Priorität über alle anderen Veränderungsarten. Der Autor fragt in einem ersten Schritt nach der Relevanz dieser keineswegs selbstverständlichen Prioritätsthese und ihrer Diskussion in Physik VIII. Er zeigt, dass Aristoteles' Argumente für diese These - im Gegensatz zur bisherigen Deutung - eine wesentliche Funktion im größeren Kontext von Physik VIII und der aristotelischen Naturphilosophie allgemein erfüllen.

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The importance of the primary kind of change; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 The arrangement of the Physics; 2.2.1 First option: Books VI-VIII as the treatise On Change; 2.2.1.1 Andronicus; 2.2.1.2 Theophrastus' letter; 2.2.1.3 References in Aristotle; 2.2.1.4 Eudemus; 2.2.2 Second option: Books V-VIII as the treatise On Change; 2.3 The eight books of the Physics; 2.3.1 Physics I-IV: Examining change for the sake of understanding nature; 2.3.2 Physics V-VIII: The general analysis of change; 2.4 Physics VIII

2.4.1 Overview2.4.2 The argument of Physics VIII; 2.4.3 The importance of the primary kind of change; 2.5 Conclusion; 3. Change in quality and quantity of living beings depends on locomotion, but not vice versa; 3.1 Overview; 3.2 Growth and diminution presuppose alteration; 3.2.1 Growth presupposes alteration; 3.2.2 Diminution presupposes alteration; 3.3 Alteration presupposes locomotion; 3.4 Does locomotion precede all occurrences of change in quantity?; 3.5 The reason for the restriction of the argument's scope; 3.6 The sense of priority; 3.7 Conclusion

4. Locomotion necessarily accompanies each of the other kinds of change, but not vice versa4.1 Overview; 4.2 What changes in quantity changes with respect to place; 4.2.1 Overview; 4.2.2 What is growing moves to a larger place; 4.2.3 Change in place implies no change in the spatial order of the subject's parts; 4.2.4 A possible objection; 4.2.5 Compatibility with the irreducibility of the kinds of change; 4.2.6 Conclusion; 4.3 What undergoes generation or corruption changes with respect to place; 4.3.1 Overview; 4.3.2 Generation and corruption in virtue of aggregation and segregation

4.3.3 What aggregates or segregates must change with respect to place4.3.4 Conclusion; 4.4 What changes in quality changes with respect to place; 4.4.1 Overview; 4.4.2 What does it mean that condensation and rarefaction are principles of quality?; 4.4.3 Every alteration involves a change in the four basic qualities; 4.4.4 Every change in the four basic qualities involves condensation or rarefaction; 4.4.5 Condensation and rarefaction are forms of aggregation and segregation; 4.4.6 What changes in quality changes with respect to place; 4.4.7 Conclusion; 4.5 Conclusion

5. All changes depend on the first locomotion, but not vice versa5.1 Overview; 5.2 The unity of the eternal change; 5.2.1 Two ways in which change may be eternal; 5.2.2 Why the eternal change must be one and continuous; 5.2.3 The criteria for being one continuous change; 5.2.4 What is better is the case in nature; 5.3 Locomotion alone can be one and eternal; 5.3.1 None of the other three kinds of change can be one and eternal; 5.3.2 Only circular locomotion can be one and eternal; 5.4 Locomotion has ontological priority; 5.4.1 Ontological priority

5.4.2 A third sense in which locomotion is ontologically prior