ARISTOTLE - The Works of Aristotle - Physical Treatises: Physics

THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE:

PHYSICAL TREATISES: PHYSICS

QUOTES FOR DISCUSSION

From biographical note on Aristotle:

He [Plato] is said to have been called by Plato the intellect of the school. There is also a tradition that he taught rhetoric. “The more I am by myself and alone, the fonder I have become of myths.”

Place can be left behind by the thing and is separable… We say that a thing is in the world, in the sense of in place, because it is in the air and the air is in the world; and when we say it is in the air, we do not mean it is in every part of the air, but that it is in the air because of the outer surface of the air which surrounds it;

The Works of Aristotle, Physical Treatises: Physics, Book IV, Chapter 4, Great Books Volume 8, pg. 290

…and if the “now” which is not, but formerly was, must have ceased-to-be at some time, the “nows” too cannot be simultaneous with one another, but the prior “now” must always have ceased-to-be. … If then it did not cease-to-be in the next “now” but in another, it would exist simultaneously with the innumerable “now” between the two – which is impossible.

… if coincidence in time (i.e. being neither prior nor posterior) means to be ‘in one and the same “now”’, then, if both what is before and what is after are in the same ‘now’, things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened to-day, and nothing would be before or after anything else. This may serve as a statement of the difficulties about the attributes of time.

The Works of Aristotle, Physical Treatises: Physics, Book IV, Chapter 10, Great Books Volume 8, pg. 298

But neither does time exist without change for when the state of our own minds does not change at all, or we have not noticed its changing, we do not realize that that has elapsed, any more than those who are fabled to sleep among the heroes in Sardinia do when they are awakened; for the connect the earlier “now” with the later and make them cone, cutting out the interval because of their failure to notice it.

The Works of Aristotle, Physical Treatises: Physics, Book IV, Chapter 11, Great Books Volume 8, pg. 298

We have now discussed time – both time itself and the matters appropriate to the consideration of it.

The Works of Aristotle, Physical Treatises: Physics, Book IV, Chapter 14, Great Books Volume 8, pg. 304

VOCABULARY - ARISTOTLE: PHYSICS
Great Books Volume 8

ERISTICAL, pg. 532

A adjective

1 eristic, eristical

given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments

ANALOGOUS, PG. 548

analogous

A adjective

1 analogous

corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin; "the wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird are analogous"

2 analogous, correspondent

similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered analogous"; "surimi is marketed as analogous to crabmeat"

CORPOREAL, PG. 588

A adjective

1 corporeal, material

having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett

2 bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic

affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness"