Aristotle on matter, form, and moving causes : the hylomorphic theory of substantial generation /
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| Author / Creator: | Henry, Devin, 1973- author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( xiii, 236 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12313703 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations of Aristotle's Works; Introduction; Chapter 1 Preliminary Puzzles; 1.1 The Eleatic Challenge; 1.2 Aristotle's First Response: Physics I 8; 1.3 Aristotle's Second Response: Generation and Corruption I 3; 1.4 Potential Being; 1.5 Are the Two Solutions Compatible?; Chapter 2 The Hylomorphic Model of Substantial Generation: Physics I; 2.1 The Basic Model: Physics I 7; 2.2 The Subject Condition; 2.3 The Persistence Condition; 2.4 Re-Evaluating the Standard Reading
- 2.5 Physics I 9Chapter 3 Substantial versus Non-Substantial Change: GC I 1-4; 3.1 Generation versus Alteration; 3.2 The GC Model of Substantial Generation; 3.3 Are Physics I and GC I Compatible?; 3.4 Generation versus Mixture; 3.5 Two Puzzles about Persistence; 3.5.1 A Puzzle about Biological Generation; 3.5.2 A Puzzle about Elemental Transformation; Chapter 4 The Extended Hylomorphic Model: GC II 9; 4.1 The Principles of Natural Generation Revisited; 4.1.1 Matter; 4.1.2 Form; 4.1.3 Moving Causes; 4.2 Formalist Theories of Natural Generation; 4.3 Materialist Theories of Natural Generation
- 4.4 Is Matter Entirely Passive and Inert?4.5 Looking Forward; Chapter 5 Biological Generation: Part One; 5.1 The Project of the GA; 5.2 Reproductive Hylomorphism; 5.3 Division of Labour; 5.4 Two Applications of the Hylomorphic Model; 5.5 Embryogenesis; 5.5.1 Male Form; 5.5.2 Female Matter; 5.6 The Subject of Animal Generation; Chapter 6 Biological Generation: Part Two; 6.1 Body and Soul; 6.2 What Is the Point of Males?; 6.3 The Unity of the Soul; Chapter 7 The Efficient Cause of Animal Generation; 7.1 A Puzzle about the Efficient Cause; 7.2 The Definition of Nature in Physics II 1
- 7.3 Natures in the Biological Works7.4 The Mechanisms of Heredity; 7.5 Two Senses of Formal Nature; Chapter 8 The Architectonic Model; 8.1 The Timaeus Model of Generation; 8.2 The Statesman's Rule in the Politicus; 8.3 Reason's Rule in the Cosmos; 8.4 Aristotle's Naturalisation of the Timaeus Model; 8.5 The Role of Material Natures in Non-Teleological Contexts; 8.5.1 The Pathêmata of GA V; 8.5.2 The Omentum; Appendix to Chapter 8; Chapter 9 The Cosmological Significance of Substantial Generation; 9.1 Two Perspectives on Generation; 9.2 Why Are There Sexes?; 9.2.1 The Separation Argument
- 9.2.2 The Cosmological Argument9.3 The Continuity of Generation: GC II 10; 9.4 Necessity and Eternity; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index.
