Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Katayama, Errol. “Soul and Elemental Motion in Aristotle’s Physics VIII 4.” Apeiron, Vol. 44, 2011, pp. 163-190. doi: 10.1515/apeiron.2011.012
Abstract
By defending the following views – that Aristotle identifies the generator and perhaps the obstacle remover (in an extended sense) as an essential cause of the natural sublunary elemental motion in Physics VIII 4; that this view is consistent with the view of Physics II 1 that the sublunary simple bodies have a principle of internal motion; and that the sublunary and the celestial elements have a nature in the very same way – I shall offer what has so far eluded Aristotelian commentators: a consistent interpretation of Aristotle's theory of the natural motions of the sublunary and also the celestial elements.
Publication Date
4-6-2011
DOI
10.1515/apeiron.2011.012
Notes
The published version of this article can be found on Apeiron using this link.