Supersession and Superseded Causes in Aristotle

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Frank A. Lewis
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Abstract Aristotle’s theory of causes requires a first, unmoved mover outside the sublunary world, along with soul as first and unmoved mover in the natural world below. Aristotle separates the charmed group of causes headed by soul that are jointly sufficient for typical animal behaviour from external causes. The border between external and charmed is permeable: crops growing in the field are co-opted to become an instrument of soul that nourishes the animal. (Instruments of soul like the sumphuton pneuma are internal to the animal from the start.) But no causes, not even the Unmoved Mover, may supersede soul as unmoved mover.
亚里斯多德的取代和被取代的原因
亚里士多德的原因理论要求在地下世界之外有一个首要的、不动的推动者,而在下面的自然世界中,灵魂也是首要的、不动的推动者。亚里士多德将以灵魂为首的迷人的一组原因与外部原因分开,这些原因共同足以导致典型的动物行为。外部和迷人之间的边界是可渗透的:在田地里生长的作物被选为滋养动物的灵魂工具。(像sumphuton pneuma这样的灵魂乐器从一开始就存在于动物体内。)但是,任何原因,甚至是不动的动因,都不能取代灵魂作为不动的动因。
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1955, Phronesis has become the most authoritative scholarly journal for the study of ancient Greek and Roman thought (ancient philosophy, psychology, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of science and medicine) from its origins down to the end of the sixth century A.D. Phronesis offers the reader specialist articles and book notes from top scholars in Europe and North America. The language of publication is in practice English, although papers in Latin, French, German and Italian are also published.
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