De generatione et corruptione

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De generatione et corruptione ( old Gr . Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς , peri geneseôs kai phthoras : About emergence and decay ) is a 4th century BC. Aristotle's writing on the philosophy of nature , created in the 4th century , which, within the framework of the Aristotelian theory of movement or change, deals with the emergence and decay of individual things and elements .

The font is directly linked to De Caelo and consists of two books. Book I uses the form-matter distinction to analyze emergence and decay as a change in a substance in which the underlying matter receives or loses a form. Book II analyzes the change processes in the four elements that arise from the transitions between the opposites warm / cold and wet / dry.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leo J. Elders : Peri geneseôs kai phthoras. In: Franco Volpi , Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.): Lexicon of philosophical works (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 486). Kröner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-520-48601-6 , pp. 503-504.

literature

  • Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione. Translated with Notes by CJF Williams . Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1982 (Clarendon Aristotle Series). - Review by James Longrigg, in: The Classical Review (New Series) 35.2, 1985, pp. 386-387, online .
  • Aristotle: About becoming and passing away. De generatione et corruptione . Greek and German (study edition), translated, introduced and annotated by Thomas Buchheim . Felix Meiner, Hamburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-7873-2140-7 .
  • Marwan Rashed (Ed.): Aristote. De la generation et la corruption. Nouvelle édition. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2005. ISBN 2-251-00527-7 . - Latest scientific edition, with commentary and French translation.

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