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Aristotle's concept of chance : accidents, cause, necessity, and determinism /
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Aristotle�s Concept of Chance
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I. CHANCE IN THE PHYSICS OF ARISTOTLE:THE METAPHYSICS OF CHANCE
- 1. THE DOCTRINE OF PHYS. II, iv-vi
- (i) Context and method
- (ii) Terminology
- (iii) Only unusual occurrences come about by chance
- (iv) Chance refers to events
- (v) Some events are meaningful and others are not
- (vi) Chance events are both unusual and meaningful
- (vii) Chance is a cause
- (viii) Chance is an accidental cause that is meaningful
- (Ix) Chance as an accidental cause can pertain to any category(x) Chance events are inherently unpredictable
- (xi) The relationship of Ï?Ï?Ï?η to Ï?ÎÏ?Î?η; their outcomes are contingent
- (xii) Both good luck and bad luck are meaningful
- (xiii) Good luck
- (xiv)The distinction between Ï?Ï?Ï?η and Ï?αá??Ï?ÏŒÎ?αÏ?οÎ?
- (xv) The relationship of Ï?αá??Ï?ÏŒÎ?αÏ?οÎ? to Î?ÎƠÏ?ηÎ?
- (xvi) Substances generated counter to nature fall und Ï?αá??Ï?ÏŒÎ?αÏ?οÎ?
- (xvii) Chance, Î?οá¿?Ï? and Ï?Ï?Ï?ιÏ?
- 2. THE STRUCTURE OF PHYS. II, iv-vi
- 3. DATING PHYS. II, iv-vi(a) Texts in which Ï?Ï?Ï?η covers all of chance
- (b) Î?Ï?Ï?η in Aristotleâ€?s mature metaphysical writings
- (i) the meaning of Ï?αá??Ï?ÏŒÎ?αÏ?οÎ? ÎðαΠ̄Ï?Ï?Ï?η
- (ii) Inconclusive passages in the later metaphysical writings
- (iii) The sources of generation
- (iv) Note on Met. K
- (v) Conclusion
- 4. NECESSITY AND CHANCE
- (a) Aristotle�s concept of necessity
- (i) Introduction
- (ii) Absolute necessity
- (iii) Final causes are not derived by absolute necessity
- (iv) The necessity of the Unmoved Mover
- (V) Hypothetical necessity(vi) Degrees of hypothetical necessity
- (vii) Force
- (viii) Fate
- (ix) The correspondence of the four causes to absolute and hypothetical necessity
- (x) The coincidence of hypothetical and absolute necessity
- (xi) The distinction in subject-matter and method betweenphysics and the other two theoretical sciences
- (xii) Accidents occur by absolute and notby hypothetical necessity
- (xiii) There is no science of the unusual accident
- (xiv) Necessity in relation to man
- (B) Necessity and chance: Aristotle�s criticism of the Presocratics(ii) Necessity and chance in Democritus
- (iii) Conclusion
- (a) Additional note on Phys. VIII, iv (cf. n. 86 supra).
- (b) Additional note on Plato's concept of chance (cf. n. 172 supra).
- (c) Additonal note on Empedocles' zoogony (cf. n. 182 supra).
- (d) Additional note on Phys. II, iv, 196 a 28-33 (cf. supra n. 191).
- 5. THE CAUSES OF THAT WHICH OCCURS BY CHANCE
- (a) Chance events
- (b) Monsters
- (c) Spontaneous generation
- (i) The vocabulary of spontaneous generation