Aristotle: Life as Self-Creation

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Aristotle: Life as Self-Creation
Original language description
This chapter focuses on Aristotle's theory of the four causes and the way Aristotle applies this explicative framework to living beings. Their material cause is the body parts, the functional units from which their bodies are composed. The efficient cause is identified with the father, or rather father's form (species). In the course of embryogenesis, this cause is internalised and the nascent organism itself becomes the cause of its vital movements, including the movement of self-formation. The formal cause is to be understood dynamically, as a complex of vital movements in which a particular, species-specific manner of life takes place. This form of a living body is its soul, i.e., its propre animation. Thus understood, the form merges with the final cause. Finality, or the aiming at a predefined final state, is characteristic of embryogenesis as the ontogenetic movement which (normally) leads to offspring that resemble their parents, both individually and in terms of species. The final cause of the body parts is the function they have in the body; they develop in order to exercise their vital activities. The whole organism does not serve an external purpose: its finality is to be itself, to fulfil its own form.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Organismal Agency: Biological Concepts and Their Philosophical Foundations
ISBN
978-3-031-53625-0
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
15-34
Number of pages of the book
291
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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