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Dust To Dust: Aristotle's Account Of Generation And Desctruction, Mary Louise Gill
Dust To Dust: Aristotle's Account Of Generation And Desctruction, Mary Louise Gill
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
I believe Aristotle could endorse God’s statement to Adam as reflecting his own theory of generation and destruction. Complex bodies, such as living organisms, are generated out of earth, and to earth they will ultimately return. In this paper I will argue that Aristotle defends a cyclical model of generation and destruction which starts and ends with some simple stuff. I will call the model the ''construction model." The construction model underlies many of Aristotle’s claims about substantial generation and destruction, but he presents the main theory in Metaphysics H.5, a text that is curiously neglected in recent discussions of …
The Plotinian Reduction Of Aristotle's Categories, Christos C. Evangeliou
The Plotinian Reduction Of Aristotle's Categories, Christos C. Evangeliou
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
I propose to consider the Plotinian reduction of Aristotle’s categories, especially as presented in the problematic VI. 3. 3. The following questions will be discussed: Which of the Aristotelian categories did Plotinus consider dispensable and for what specific reasons? Are there any non-Aristotelian categories in the Plotinian set and, if so, where do they come from and how do they function? By what method, if any, did Plotinus determine the number of his set of categories and why just five? Finally, why is it that Plotinus is the last, in a long series of Platonists, to sharply criticize Aristotle’s doctrine …