Theory and practice in Aristotle's natural science by David Ebrey

By David Ebrey

Aristotle argued that during idea you could gather wisdom of the wildlife. yet he didn't cease there; he positioned his theories into perform. This quantity of recent essays exhibits how Aristotle's traditional technological know-how and philosophical theories make clear each other. The members have interaction with either organic and non-biological medical works and with a large choice of theoretical works, together with Physics, new release and Corruption, at the Soul, and Posterior Analytics. The essays specialize in a couple of subject matters, together with this sort of rationalization supplied by way of subject; the connection among topic, teleology, and necessity; cosmic teleology; how an organism's soul and colleges relate to its finish; how to find issues comparable to sleep, void, and soul; and the right kind technique to make clinical judgments. The ensuing quantity bargains a wealthy and built-in view of Aristotle's technology and exhibits the way it suits along with his greater philosophical theories

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Since the animal does not lose its perceptive faculty when it sleeps, the relevant inability must be due to the absence of one, or more, of the conditions required for external sense objects to affect the heart in such a way that the animal perceives them. If this is parallel to the case just discussed, that of an eclipse, the relevant condition would be that of the medium of perception, and the efficient cause would be whatever it is that is responsible for the absence of the appropriate medium.

Given that what the patient has done to it is the same as what the agent does, one can determine the latter by determining the former, and the efficient cause will be whatever it is that does precisely that to the heart. Since the animal does not lose its perceptive faculty when it sleeps, the relevant inability must be due to the absence of one, or more, of the conditions required for external sense objects to affect the heart in such a way that the animal perceives them. If this is parallel to the case just discussed, that of an eclipse, the relevant condition would be that of the medium of perception, and the efficient cause would be whatever it is that is responsible for the absence of the appropriate medium.

In some way still to be specified, this nutriment, in its partially digested form, leaves the area of the heart, moves to the brain, and once again returns to the heart. Upon its return, at least if the return is sufficiently massive, the heart is immobilized in such a way that it is temporarily incapable of being affected by external sense objects in such a way that the animal perceives them. Hence, the animal cycles back and forth between sleep and wakefulness, and the partially digested nutriment is the efficient cause that puts the heart in the condition for sleep.

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