New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and Its Critics by Miira Tuominen, Sara Heinamaa, Virpi Makinen

By Miira Tuominen, Sara Heinamaa, Virpi Makinen

New investigations at the content material, effect, and feedback of Aristotelianism in Antiquity, the overdue heart a long time, and smooth ethics convey that Aristotelianism isn't really an out of date monolithic doctrine yet a dwelling and evolving culture inside philosophy. smooth philosophy and technology are often understood as anti-Aristotelian, and Early glossy philosophers frequently conceived their philosophical undertaking as opposing medieval Aristotelianism. New views on Aristotelianism and Its Critics brings to mild the internal complexity of those simplified oppositions by means of analysing Aristotle's philosophy, the Aristotelian culture, and feedback in the direction of it inside of 3 issues - wisdom, rights, and the nice existence - in historical, medieval, and smooth philosophy. It explores the assets of Aristotle's philosophy for breaking via a few significant impasses and simplified dichotomies of the philosophy of our time. individuals are: John Drummond, Sabine Follinger, Hallvard Fossheim, Sara Heinamaa, Roberto Lambertini, Virpi Makinen, Fred D. Miller, Diana Quarantotto, and Miira Tuominen

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1 Broadly, this amounts to the thesis that the goal aimed at by organisms is their own good, that is, a good which coincides with their being and functioning and not with some other entity’s being and functioning. In this respect, Aristotle’s theory does not display any hint of anthropocentrism or theocentrism: the good is an individual thing or, at most, a specific one. Moreover, the process whereby organisms strive after their own good is now thought to have nothing to do with vitalism or animism.

Phys. 8, 199a15–7. Aristotle ’ s Natural Teleology Seen from Above 41 degree of eternal being:43 they are not eternal, nor substances, nor the object of scientific knowledge. 44 At the top of the hierarchy there is the first unmoved mover. Arguably it is not correct to say that the first mover is a subject of eternal being nor that it strives for eternal being. 45 The first mover is the goal itself, eternal being itself: it accomplishes eternal being directly, without any means. The reason is that the first mover lacks any kind of duality, as it altogether lacks both matter and potentiality.

E. a process that is arguably an energeia. e. a potentiality of both being and not being) and the dynamic expression of potential being is just a kinêsis? The answer I shall propose is broadly the following. The circular locomotion of celestial bodies is both a kinêsis and an energeia, yet in different respects. , by combining and organising several rectilinear movements that together perform an energeia. Aristotle’s treatment of the circular locomotion of celestial bodies is a particularly thorny one.

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