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Maintaining that Aristotles writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core, David Bolotin argues in this book that Aristotle never seriously intended many of his doctrines that have been demolished by modern science. To that end, he presents a number of case studies to show that Aristotle deliberately misrepresented his views about nature--a thought that was commonly shared by commentators on his work in late antiquity and the middle ages. Bolotin demonstrates that Aristotles real views have not been refuted by modern science and still deserve our most serious attention.
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An Approach to Aristotle's Physics : With Particular Attention to the Role of His Manner of Writing
author
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Bolotin, David.; Aristotle.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0791435520
print isbn13
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9780791435526
ebook isbn13
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9780585092058
language
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English
subject
Aristotle.--Physics, Physics--Early works to 1800, Greek language--Style, Philosophy, Ancient.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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Q151.A8B65 1998eb
ddc
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530
subject
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Aristotle.--Physics, Physics--Early works to 1800, Greek language--Style, Philosophy, Ancient.
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An Approach to Aristotle's Physics
With Particular Attention to the Role of His Manner of Writing
DAVID BOLOTIN
State University of New York Press
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1998 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bolotin, David, 1944 An approach to Aristotle's physics : with particular attention to the role of his manner of writing / David Bolotin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-3551-2 (hardcover: alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-3552-0 (pbk.) 1. Aristotle. Physics. 2. PhysicsEarly works to 1800. 3. Greek languageStyle. 4. Philosophy, Ancient. I. Aristotle. Physics. II. Title. Q151.A8B65 1997 530dc2196-38143 CIP
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Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
1
Chapter 1 On the Principles of the Natural Beings
13
Chapter 2 The Question of Teleology
31
Chapter 3 On Continuity and Infinite Divisibility
53
Chapter 4 The Question of Place
77
Chapter 5 The Doctrine of Weight and Lightness
115
Chapter 6 On Aristotle's Manner of Writing
149
Index
155
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Acknowledgments
The bulk of this work was completed during the academic years 199194, while I was on an extended leave of absence from St. John's College. I am grateful to St. John's for granting me this leave of absence, and also to the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the financial support that made it possible for me to accept it.
Chapter 2 is a slightly revised version of a lecture that I delivered at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung in Munich on June 2, 1992. Chapter 3 is a slightly revised and shortened version of my previously published "Continuity and Infinite Divisibility in Aristotle's Physics," Ancient Philosophy 13 (1993): 32340.
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Introduction
Modern natural science emerged in the seventeenth century in explicit opposition to Aristotle's natural science, that branch of his philosophy that he called "physics." That the earth is not at rest in the center of the universe, but a mere satellite orbiting around the sun; that the stars and the planets are inanimate bodies made up of the same elements as bodies here on earth, and that their motions are subject to the same laws; that natural motion does not tend toward ends or fulfillments, but that every body in motion would continue indefinitely in a straight line if it were not for the action of external forces; all these and other such fundamental notions were regarded from the beginning as contradicting key doctrines of Aristotle's physics. The reigning belief in the truth of Aristotle's physics was the chief intellectual obstacle to the acceptance of the new science. And in the light of the success that this science has since enjoyed, it has generally been assumed that Aristotle's physics has been refuted, and that it is thus of little importance except as an object of historical inquiry.
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