The philosophy of Aristotle
What is called complete is in one way that of which it is not possible to find outside any of its part, even a single one; e.g. the complete time of each thing is that in which one cannot find outside any time which is a part of that time. Continue reading “What is called complete”
In one way we speak of privation when something has nothing of the sort of things given by nature, even if the thing itself does not possess it by nature, as, for instance, we say that plants are deprived of eyes. Continue reading “The various ways privation is spoken of”
One might raise the question, why woman does not differ from man in species, given that male and female differ from each other as being contrary; nor yet do male animal and female animal differ in species, though this difference belong substantially to animal and not as it is with paleness and darkness, but they belong to animal qua animal. Continue reading “Why some things are different in species and others are not”
There are some people who assert that a thing can act only when it is acting, whereas when it is not acting it cannot act, e.g. he who is not building cannot built, but does so the one who is building when he is building; and similarly with all other cases. Continue reading “When a thing can act, and what is capable of doing something”
Affection is in one sense spoken of a quality in virtue of which a body can be altered, such as white and black, sweet and bitter, heaviness and lightness, and the like. Continue reading “How affection is spoken of”
We call necessary that without which life cannot exist, as it is a joint cause, such as breathing and nourishment are necessary for an animal; for without them it is impossible for that to exist. Continue reading “The ways in which the necessary is spoken of”
There are five ways in which the infinite is spoken of. In one sense, that which by its nature has no limit, and it is as something impassable and inextricable in that it has no path to tread since it is not a quantity at all, is called infinite, just as we say that the voice is invisible in that it does not fall to sight at all. Of the same kind is both point and quality; for these are limitless: the former, though being itself a limit, has no limit, in that it has no size, and similarly with white and in general with quality in that it has no passage at all. Continue reading “The ways in which the infinite is spoken of”
