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Aristotle's Conception of Matter, Journal of Philosophy 70: 679 – 696.
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According to Frame, examples of attempts to explain reality are found in Plato and Aristotle's Form / Matter dualism ; the debate between the nominalists and the realists over the status of universals and particulars, and the " all is ... water, atoms, etc " of the pre-Socratics.
Matter in Aristotle's thought is, however, defined in terms of sensible reality ( operationally, as it were ) as that which underlies substantial change ; for example, a horse eats grass: the horse changes the grass into itself ; the grass as such does not persist in the horse, but some aspect of it — its matter — does.
* Bostock, David, Space, Time, Matter, and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics ( Oxford University Press, 2006 ).
** Mohan Matthen and R. J. Hankinson, " Aristotle's Universe: Its Form and Matter ," Synthese 96 ( 1993 ), 417-35.
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* Brague, Rémi, " Aristotle's Definition of Motion and Its Ontological Implications ," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 13: 2 ( 1990 ), 1-22.
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In recent years, Edmund Jephcott and Stanford University Press have published new translations of some of Adorno's lectures and books, including Introduction to Sociology, Problems of Moral Philosophy and his transcribed lectures on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Aristotle's " Metaphysics ", and a new translation of the Dialectic of Enlightenment.
( 1989 ) ' John Buridan's Philosophy of Mind: An Edition and Translation of Book III of His ' Questions on Aristotle's De Anima ( Third Redaction ), with Commentary and Critical and Interpretative Essays.
His two great works, Discussionum peripateticorum libri XV ( Basel, 1571 ), and Nova de universis philosophia ( New Philosophy of Universes, Basel, 1591 ), developed the view that, whereas Aristotle's teaching was in direct opposition to Christianity, Plato, on the contrary, foreshadowed the Christian revelation and prepared the way for its acceptance.
In his The Crisis of Western Philosophy: Against the Positivists he attempted to discredit the Positivists ' rejection of Aristotle's essentialism or philosophical realism.
* Aristotle's De Interpretatione: Semantics and Philosophy of Language with an extensive bibliography of recent studies
The Tradition of Commentaries on Aristotle's De anima, Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy, 2007, pp. 179 – 203.
** Bas C. van Fraassen, " A Re-examination of Aristotle's Philosophy of Science ," Dialogue 19 ( 1980 ), 20-45.
** Cynthia A. Freeland, " Scientific Explanation and Empirical Data in Aristotle's Meteorology ," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 8 ( 1990 ), 67-102.
" Werner Jaeger detected the influence of Aristotle's On Philosophy ( a lost work Jaeger believed to have been published shortly before Epinomis in 348 / 347 BC ) on much of the Epinomis, including the idea of the " fifth body.
* Philosophy — from Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics to more modern philosophers, such as Kant and Wittgenstein
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However implausible this is, it is certainly the case that Aristotle's rigid separation of action from production, and his justification of the subservience of slaves and others to the virtue – or arete – of a few justified the ideal of aristocracy.
Selection by lottery was the standard means as it was regarded as the more democratic: elections would favour those who were rich, noble, eloquent and well-known, while allotment spread the work of administration throughout the whole citizen body, engaging them in the crucial democratic experience of, to use Aristotle's words, " ruling and being ruled in turn " ( Politics 1317b28 – 30 ).
# Islamic alchemy CE – 1200, the Muslim conquest of Egypt ; development of alchemy by Jābir ibn Hayyān, al-Razi and others ; Jābir modifies Aristotle's theories ; advances in processes and apparatus.
According to Newton himself and other historians of science, his Principia's first law of motion was the same as Aristotle's counterfactual principle of interminable locomotion in a void stated in Physics 4. 8. 215a19 – 22 and was also endorsed by ancient Greek atomists and others.
* Sir Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ) published Novum Organum in 1620, which outlined a new system of logic based on the process of reduction, which he offered as an improvement over Aristotle's philosophical process of syllogism.
* 1270 – December – Crucial aspects of the philosophy of Averroism ( itself based on Aristotle's works ) are banned by the Catholic church in a condemnation enacted by papal authority at the University of Paris.
By Aristotle's day ( 384 – 322 BC ) citizenship had been reduced from 9, 000 to less than 1, 000, and then further decreased to 700 at the accession of Agis IV in 244 BC.
* December – Crucial aspects of the philosophy of Averroism ( itself based on Aristotle's works ) are banned by the Roman Catholic church in a condemnation enacted by papal authority at the University of Paris.
* 1650 – Otto von Guericke designed and built the world's first vacuum pump and created the world's first ever vacuum known as the Magdeburg hemispheres to disprove Aristotle's long-held supposition that ' Nature abhors a vacuum '.
Fakhr al Din al Razi Amoli ( b. 1149 ) criticised Aristotle's " first figure " and developed a form of inductive logic, foreshadowing the system of inductive logic developed by John Stuart Mill ( 1806 – 1873 ).
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi ( b. 1149 ) criticised Aristotle's " first figure " and developed a form of inductive logic, foreshadowing the system of inductive logic developed by John Stuart Mill ( 1806 – 1873 ).
James L. Kinneavy ( 1920 – 1999 ) also explored Aristotle's rhetoric and communication model in ' A Theory of Discourse ' ( 1971 ).
Aristotle's physical writings began to be discussed openly, and at a time when Aristotle's method was permeating all theology, these treatises were sufficient to cause his prohibition for heterodoxy in the Condemnations of 1210 – 1277.
Albertus Magnus ( c. 1200 – 1280 ) was among the first among medieval scholars to apply Aristotle's philosophy to Christian thought.
After Aristotle's death, a legend arose that he was a " peripatetic " lecturer – that he walked about as he taught – and the designation Peripatetikos came to replace the original Peripatos.
This was also a period of transmission: the Roman patrician Boethius ( c. 480 – 524 ) translated part of Aristotle's logical corpus, thus preserving it for the Latin West, and wrote the influential literary and philosophical treatise De consolatione Philosophiae ; Cassiodorus ( c. 485 – 585 ) founded an important library at the monastery of Vivarium near Squillace where many texts from Antiquity were to be preserved.
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