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Aristotle’s Physics
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drive that funky soul (Spiderman 3)

2. Time, Motion, and the “First Mover”: Physics V-VIII
Zeno’s Paradox: Achilles and the Tortoise A B On the “continuous” character of motion, time The Eternal, Unchanging One: Aristotle vs. Plato

3. On the nature of natural things: Physics II.1
“natural things” vs. things made by craft (“artifacts”) “a nature” / “the nature” of x thing = “innate impulse to change” “coincidental” vs. essential a “substance” is a kind of “subject”; “a nature” is “in a subject”

4. Physics II.1: the relation of matter and form
“the nature” is “the matter” “the nature” is also / moreso “the form” “the form in accordance with the account” “potentiality” in relation to “actuality”

5. Physics II.2: On Method
Aristotle’s middle way: vs. Mathematicians / Idealists on one hand (Plato) vs. Materialists on the other (Empedocles, Democritus) “Craft Imitates Nature”: understanding Nature by analogy to Art

6. Some topics for discussion
What causes change? (What are the kinds of causes?) How does “cause” relate to a thing’s “nature”? To its “end”? What is the relation of “form” to what a thing is “for”? (Compare Plato with Aristotle on the question of “form”)