Aristotle and Determinism
by P.L. Donini
In this book the most important aristotelian passages concerning the question of determinism are thoroughly reexamined: chapter 9 of de interpretatione, chapter 3 of Metaphysics’s book VI, several chapters from the Ethics, as well as some texts from the aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. This is the author’s main contention: “In Aristotle’s view the world of social relations and of human behaviours really is always highly undetermined; but this is mainly due to the unpredictable intersections of the different causal series issuing from each agent involved, while in each of these series at least one element tends to remain constant (indeed, it is the most stable element in every situation): the personal character of the human agent and the kind of response this character offers to the new situations that constantly arise”.
- By (author) PL Donini
Other Titles in this Series
L’éthique à Nicomaque I, 1
Introduction, traduction et commentaire par René Antoine Gauthier et Jean Yves Jolif
L’éthique à Nicomaque I, 2
Introduction, traduction et commentaire par René Antoine Gauthier etJean Yves Jolif
L’éthique à Nicomaque II, 1
Introduction, traduction et commentaire par René Antoine Gauthier et Jean Yves Jolif
De la logique a la theologie
Cinq etudes sur Aristote. Nouvelle version remaniee et augmentee par l'auteur, editee et prefacee par T. Benatouil
L’éthique à Nicomaque II, 2
Introduction, traduction et commentaire par René Antoine Gauthier et Jean Yves Jolif
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