Animal and celestial motion: the role of an external springboard: De Motu Animalium 2–3

This contribution comments on Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium 2–3 (MA 2–3). In these chapters Aristotle first claims that animal self-motion requires something eternal to the animal that is unmoved. He then poses the question whether, if something moves the whole heavens, there must be something that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coope, U
Other Authors: Rapp, C
Format: Book section
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2020