This book examines Aristotle's concept of natural substance and its implications for change, process, agency, teleology, mathematical continuity, and eternal motion. It illustrates the conceptual power of Aristotle's metaphysics of nature, along with its scientific limitations and internal tensions.
Keywords: Aristotle, natural substance, change, process, agency, teleology, mathematical continuity, eternal motion, metaphysics
| Print publication date: 1982 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198246534 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198246534.001.0001 |