Aristotle and Aquinas on the Teleology of Parts and Wholes
Aristotle, in the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics, makes two attempts at establishing the thesis that being a human being has a point (a telos), using two parallel sets of examples. His first step is to claim that whenever anything has a characteristic activity (ergon) that activity is its end...
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Universidad Panamericana
2013-11-01
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| Online Access: | http://topicosojs.up.edu.mx/ojs/index.php/topicos/article/view/245 |