On Aristotle "Physics 8.6-10"

ISBN-13: 9780715630396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 240 str.

of Cilicia Simplicius;Richard D. McKirahan

Opis

Aristotle's Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. Aristotle argues that things in motion need to be moved by something other than themselves - he rejects Plato's self-movers. On pain of regress, there must be an unmoved mover. If this unmoved mover is to cause motion eternally, it needs infinite power. It cannot, then, be a body, since bodies, being of finite size, cannot house infinite power. The unmoved mover is therefore an incorporeal God.