The Nature of Physical ExistenceRoutledge, 4 de febr. 2014 - 384 pàgines This is Volume II of six in a collection on Epistemology. Originally published in 1972, the central concern of this book is the understanding of the nature of the universe. Its field is thus that which until the eighteenth century had been known as philosophia naturalis, the philosophy of nature. The aim of the book is to elucidate and examine the fundamental concepts in terms of which the universe is understood. |
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ARISTOTLES DOCTRINE OF | 53 |
THE NEW PHILOSOPHY OF THE INFINITE | 70 |
THE CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSE | 82 |
THE GREEK CONCEPTION OF | 101 |
MATTER MOTION AND THE CONCEPT | 151 |
THE THEORY OF ATOMISM AND | 165 |
THE CONTINUUM THE PHYSICALS | 174 |
THE MODERN CONCEPTION OF NATURE | 226 |
An Introductory Note to Part IV | 240 |
MATTER MOTION AND SUBSTANCE | 254 |
RELATION ACTION AND SUBSTANCE | 265 |
THE PHYSICAL EXISTENT AND BODY | 284 |
THE PHYSICAL EXISTENT SIMPLE | 297 |
PHYSICAL EXISTENCE CONTINUITY | 314 |
NATURE THE INFINITE AND | 334 |
DESCARTES THEORY OF | 186 |
INFINITE PLACE AND THE PRINCIPLE | 197 |
THE PHYSICAL EXISTENT | 207 |
THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE page | 349 |
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accepted accordingly acting activity actual entity actual existent aggregate analysis Anaximander apeiron archai Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's atoms Averroës Avicenna basic body Bruno character compound conceived concept of motion concept of nature concept of place conception of matter connotation constituted continuity continuum contrary contrast Cusanus definite derivative Descartes distinction divisible doctrine elements entailed essential explicatio extendedness extension finite force fundamental G.II Galileo Gassendi Greek Henry of Ghent hyle ibid identified implies infinite divisibility infinitely extended infinity involved issue Kant kinēsis Leibniz Loemker maintained material atomism mathematical means medieval modern concept monads necessarily Neoplatonic Newton ontological status ousia Parmenides pertains philosophical physical existent Platonic Plotinus plurality position possible potency potentiality Presocratics principle problem regarded rejected relatedness relation res extensa respect Scholium seen sense seventeenth century space substance substantial form substratum theory things thinkers thought tion transcendent ultimate unity universe void Whitehead whole word