The Metaphysics of AristotleHenry G. Bohn, 1857 - 445 стор. |
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according to accident actual admit affirm amongst Anaxagoras animal Aristotle Aristotle's Asclepius assertion atheism belong biped body capacity cause chap chapter ciples cognisant connexion constitute contraries contrariety corruption definition Democritus denominated dogma doubt duad elements Empedocles energy essence eternal evident example existence false formal cause formal principle Further genera genus Heraclitus Hesiod Ideal Theory ideas imparts motion impossible indivisible infinite inherent inquiry instance investigation Leucippus likewise manner mathematical entities matter mean merely Metaphysics mode monads nature necessary nonentity object Ontology opinion Parmenides particular thing passive philosophers physical Plato plurality possess possible Posterior Analytics potentiality predicated principle prior produced Protagoras Pythagoras Pythagoreans quantity question reason regard respect sceptics sense sensibles separable subsistence signifies singulars Socrates sort species speculators stance subsists according substance supposition theory tion translated true truth unity universal Vide book whatsoever Wherefore word τὸ
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Сторінка xcvi - But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel : Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
Сторінка 331 - In the first, by what is accomplished by violence, because it is contrary to free-will ; and, secondly, as that without which a thing does not subsist in an excellent manner ; and, thirdly, as that which could not be otherwise from what it is, but involves an absolute subsistence. From a First Principle, then, of this kind — I mean one that is involved in the assumption of a First Mover — hath depended the Heaven and Nature.
Сторінка 331 - But this highest principle is God: 'Now, the course of life of this First Mover — in like manner with our own, for a limited period of time — is such, also, as is the most excellent; for, in the present instance, doth that First Mover continue in the enjoyment of the principle of life for ever: for with us, certainly, such a thing as this would be impossible; but not so with the First Mover : since even doth the energy or activity of this First Mover give rise unto pleasure or satisfaction on...
Сторінка 51 - ... moved by the air, and this by the sun, and the sun by discord ; and of this that there should be no end. Nor, in like manner, can this infinite progression take place with the final cause, — that walking, for instance, should be gone through for the sake of health, and this for the sake of enjoyment, and this enjoyment for the sake of something else ; and similarly, that one thing invariably should subsist on account of another. And, in like manner, is it the case with the formal cause. For...
Сторінка 359 - ... the Metaphysics (XII. 4) that "Socrates was engaged in forming systems in regard to the ethical or moral virtues, and was the first to institute an investigation in regard to the universal definition of these. . . . There are two improvements in science which one might justly ascribe to Socrates — I allude to his employment of inductive arguments and his definition of the universal.