On Generation and Corruption

Name: On Generation and Corruption
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781787366527

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: George Easton

Unabridged: 2 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 04/12/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

On Generation and Corruption is a scientific work written by Aristotle in which he explores the concepts of change, decay, and permanence in the natural world. The book is divided into two main sections: the first deals with the nature of change and motion, while the second focuses on the concept of generation and corruption. Aristotle argues that everything in the natural world is subject to change, and that this change can be either accidental or substantial. Accidental change refers to changes in the properties or characteristics of an object, while substantial change refers to a change in the object's very essence or being. He also argues that change can only occur through motion, which is the transfer of potentiality to actuality. Read in English, unabridged.

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Orhan on April 15, 2021

It's fascinating to notice in Aristotle's books, which are over two millennia old, that he is always properly citing his sources and quoting the preceding philosophers. In essence, he does not attempt to take any recognition for someone else's ideas and in return implements a high ethical standard o......more

Goodreads review by Roy on June 02, 2016

With this relatively minor work of proto-science, my voyage through Aristotle’s corpus continues. Of Generation and Corruption is a very poor name for this work; a better one would be Of Coming-to-Be and Passing-Away. Those two terms capture what Aristotle is investigating: How does matter come abo......more

Goodreads review by Nouru-éddine on September 07, 2024

::انطباع عام:: ========= 1_ في الواقع لم أستمتع بهذا الكتاب كما استمتعتُ مع كتابي الأخلاق والنفس لأرسطوطاليس. جاءت عبارات الكتاب بلغة شديدة القساوة وخالية من الروح. ولكنها لا تختلف كثيرًا عن لغة أرسطو التي أصبحت معهودة الآن بالنسبة لي: فهو يجمع المشاهدات العملية ويستنتج منها النظرية. فهو ينطلق من الوا......more

Goodreads review by Truls on November 24, 2020

Denna bok är tudelad - halva är en kritik och förklaring av elementsläran, och eftersom denna inte direkt är använd numera, så är denna del poänglös. Den mer intressanta halvan handlar om hur man inom logiken bör hantera potentialiteter, och saker som kan följa men inte är nödvändiga. Denna del kan......more