Aristotle On Generation and Corruption, Book

358 Pages·2008·2.11 MB·English

ARISTOTLE: ON GENERATION AND CORRUPTION
BOOK I
SYMPOSIUM ARISTOTELICUM
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Aristotle: OnGeneration
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andCorruption, Book
Symposium Aristotelicum
edited by
FRANS DE HAAS
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JAAP MANSFELD
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PREFACE
The XVth Symposium Aristotelicum met from 21 to 28 August 1999 in
Deurne,theNetherlands.WestayedattheMissiehuisStWillebrord,just
outsidetown.Weenjoyedthequietatmosphereandspaciousgroundsof
the Missiehuis, with their little lake, the weather being exceptionally
favourable.
We followed the tradition of the Symposium by bringing together
colleagues from various countries to study and discuss a topic of major
interest in Aristotelian studies. We took the individual chapters of the
firstbookofthefoundationalDegenerationeetcorruptioneasthetheme
of (at least) one presentation and discussion, and left one session for
discussionofthisbookasawhole. Inthiswaythetendencyofthemore
recent meetings of the Symposium to devote special attention to (a
substantial part) of an Aristotelian treatise was continued.
The chapters of the present collection do not form, and are not
intended to form, a commentary on the treatise, though individual
sections and passages are of course commented on. Instead, we want to
focusonspecificissuesandcontroversialpoints,hopingthatthisinquiry
will bring some measure of enlightenment to our readers, though dis-
agreementsonparticularquestionsareunavoidablyincluded.Asalways,
thefinalversionsofthepapersdifferfromthedraftsreadattheSympo-
sium, the authors having profited from the discussions, and from the
comments they happened to receive while revising their text. The paper
presentedbyJaapMansfeldhasbeenintegratedtosomeextentinthatof
Keimpe Algra.
Apart from the persons who read papers, the other participants were
Enrico Berti, David Charles, Andrea Falcon, Michael Frede, Frans de
Haas, Paul Kalligas, Geoffrey Lloyd, Mario Mignucci, Jan van Ophuij-
sen, Marwan Rashed, Bertus de Rijk, David Runia, Theodore Scaltsas,
Malcolm Schofield, and Gerhard Seel.
TheSymposiumwasfinancedbyagenerousgrantfromtheDepartment
ofPhilosophy,UtrechtUniversityforwhichwearegrateful.Ourstayat
the Missiehuis was made most pleasant by the unforgettable hospitality
of Ms Nora Hendriks and Father Koos van Dijk, and the assistance of
MarnixHoekstra,whostudiesancientphilosophyatUtrecht.
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors ix
Editor’s Introduction 1
Introduction:
Aristotle on the Foundations of Sublunary Physics 7
M. F. Burnyeat
1. On Generation and Corruption I. 1: A False Start? 25
Jacques Brunschwig
2. On Generation and Corruption I. 2 65
David Sedley
3. On Generation and Corruption I. 3: Substantial Change
and the Problem of Not-Being 91
Keimpe Algra
4. On Generation and Corruption I. 4: Distinguishing Alteration 123
Sarah Broadie
5. Simple Genesis and Prime Matter 151
David Charles
6. On Generation and Corruption I. 5 171
Alan Code
7. On Generation and Corruption I. 6 195
Carlo Natali
8. On Generation and Corruption I. 7: Aristotle on poiein and
paschein 219
Christian Wildberg
9. On Generation and Corruption I. 8 243
Edward Hussey
10. On Generation and Corruption I. 9 267
Michel Crubellier
11. On Generation and Corruption I. 10: On Mixture and
Mixables 289
Dorothea Frede
viii Contents
12. A Note on Aristotle on Mixture 315
John M. Cooper
References 327
Index Locorum Potiorum 331
Index Nominum et Rerum 345
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Keimpe Algra, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy,
Utrecht University
Sarah Broadie, Professor of Philosophy, St Andrews
Jacques Brunschwig, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Paris I,
Sorbonne
Myles Burnyeat, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
David Charles, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford
Alan Code, Professor of Philosophy, University of California at
Berkeley
John Cooper, Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Michel Crubellier,ProfessorofPhilosophy,Universite´ Charlesde
Gaulle, Lille
Dorothea Frede, Professor of Philosophy, Hamburg University
Edward Hussey, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Carlo Natali, Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Venice
University
David Sedley,LawrenceProfessorofAncientPhilosophyandFellow
of Christ’s College, Cambridge
Christian Wildberg, Professor of Classics, Princeton University