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Philosophy of Aristotle: The Physics: Books 1 and 2

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Aristotle

Aristotle
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Physics: Books 1 and 2

Definition Of Nature:

Aristotle nowhere tells us exactly what he means by nature, but the way
he uses the world in the Physics suggests two basic meanings. 1) The Greek
word, phusis, comes from the verb, phuo, meaning to grow, to produce, to
generate. Our word, nature, comes from the Latin verb, nator, to be born.
Nature, in English, suggests something fixed and given, a starting point.
Human nature for instance, is the sum total of qualities with which a man
starts when he is born. It is what distinguishes him from the other
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