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Front Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing Dedication Contents Preface Abbreviations Introduction Physics

Book I

I 1 Scope and method of natural science I 2 Its starting-points. The views of Parmenides and Melissus I 3 Their arguments refuted I 4 An examination of the views of the physicists I 5 The starting-points are contraries I 6 Are they, then, two or three in number? I 7 Our own account I 8 A puzzle of the ancient thinkers solved I 9 More on starting-points

Book II

II 1 What nature is and what it is to be by nature II 2 Natural science distinguished from mathematics and first philosophy II 3 What sorts of causes there are and what way they are causes II 4 Puzzles raised about the existence of luck and chance as causes II 5 Luck and chance and the way they are causes II 6 Luck and chance defined and distinguished II 7 The natural scientist should know all four causes II 8 Does nature act for an end? II 9 The necessity present in natural things

Book III

III 1 Movement III 2 Movement again III 3 Mover and moved III 4 Views of the early philosophers on the unlimited. Reasons to believe that it exists III 5 Criticisms of the views of the Pythagoreans and Platonists on the unlimited III 6 The way in which the unlimited exists III 7 The various sorts of unlimited. The unlimited as matter (material cause) III 8 Refutation of arguments for the existence of something actually unlimited

Book IV

IV 1 The existence of place IV 2 Is place matter or form? IV 3 Can a thing be in itself or a place in a place? IV 4 What place is IV 5 Puzzles about place solved and beliefs about it underwritten IV 6 Views about the void IV 7 What a void is. Refutation of arguments for the existence of a void IV 8 There is no void separate from bodies, or occupied by a body IV 9 There is no void in bodies IV 10 Puzzles about time and views about it IV 11 What time is. The now IV 12 Various attributes of time. What it is to be in time IV 13 What now, at some time, just, recently, long ago, and suddenly are IV 14 Before in time. Time and the soul

Book V

V 1 Classification of movements and changes V 2 Classification of intrinsic movements. Immovability V 3 Definitions of together, separate, making contact, intermediate, successive, contiguous, and continuous V 4 What it is for a movement to be one in genus, in species, or unconditionally one V 5 Contrariety of movement V 6 Contrariety of movement and rest, in accord with and contrary to nature

Book VI

VI 1 Every continuum consists of continuous and divisible parts VI 2 Every continuum consists of continuous and divisible parts VI 3 A now is indivisible and nothing is in movement or at rest in a now VI 4 Whatever is moved is divisible. Modes of divisibility. The things that are similarly divisible: the time, the movement, the being-in-movement, the moving thing, what the movement is with respect to VI 5 What has changed, at the moment when it has first changed, must be in what it has changed to. The primary time in which what has changed has changed must be indivisible. The time in which what has passed away has passed away or in which what has come to be has come to be is indivisible. There is no starting-point of a change nor a primary part of the time in which a thing was changing VI 6 If what changes is changing in a primary time, it must be changing in any part of it whatsoever. Everything that is in movement must have been in movement previously VI 7 The limitedness or unlimitedness of movement, magnitude, and of what is moved VI 8 Rest and coming to rest. In the time in which a thing is moving intrinsically, it is impossible for it then to be in movement with respect to some particular thing primarily VI 9 Discussion of arguments against the possibility of movement VI 10 What is without parts cannot be in movement except coincidentally. No change is unlimited

Book VII

VII 1 Everything that is in movement must be moved by something. There must be some primary mover that is not moved by anything else VII 2 The primary mover is always together with what is moved by it VII 3 Everything that is altered is altered due to perceptibles, and that there is alteration only of those things that are said to be intrinsically affected by these VII 4 The puzzle as to whether every movement is commensurable with every other or not VII 5 Proportionality of movements

Book VIII

VIII 1 Eternality of movement VIII 2 Discussion of objection to eternality of movement VIII 3 It is possible for some beings to be always immovable, others always in movement, while some have a share in both conditions VIII 4 Whatever is in movement is moved by something VIII 5 There must be some first mover that is not moved by anything else. The primary mover is immovable VIII 6 The primary mover is eternal and one. It is not moved even coincidentally. The primary moved thing is eternal VIII 7 Spatial movement is the primary kind of movement. Only it can be continuous and unlimited VIII 8 Only circular spatial movement can be continuous VIII 9 Circular movement is the primary kind of spatial movement. Further discussion of these doctrines about circular spatial movement VIII 10 The primary mover has neither parts nor magnitude and is at the circumference of the heaven

Appendix

VII 3 (Alternate Text)

Notes Glossary of Greek Terms Further Reading Index of Names Index of Terms Back Cover

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