Aristotle on Platonic Efficient Causes. A Rehabilitation
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Rareș Ilie Marinescu
Abstract
In this paper I show that Aristotle’s widely criticised exclusion of Platonic efficient causes at Metaph. A 6.988a7–17 is defensible as an interpretation of Plato, and that alternative accounts are unpersuasive. I argue that Aristotle is only interested in – what he supposes to be – Plato’s first principles and that the usual candidates that are brought forward in scholarship as possible first principles and efficient causes (e.g. from the Timaeus and the Philebus) all fall short in crucial respects according to Aristotle. This reading has the dual benefit of illuminating Aristotle’s strategy in book A and of letting him appear as a more trustworthy doxographer of his predecessors’ views.
Acknowledgments
Drafts of this paper have been presented to audiences in Cologne and Toronto. I would like to thank especially Lloyd Gerson, Roberto Granieri, Kasra Abdavi Azar, Christian Pfeiffer, Christoph Helmig and Jan Opsomer for engaging with my arguments and for making valuable suggestions. I am also grateful to the anonymous referees of this journal for their comments.
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Research funding: Research for this paper has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. [885273]) / Advanced Grant, acronym: PlatoViaAristotle.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Variazioni sul tema. Il cinismo antico e lo stile di vita: tra imitazione e interpretazione
- Aristotle on Platonic Efficient Causes. A Rehabilitation
- Aristotle’s Critique of Form-Number
- Yet Another Heuristic: Assessing Eudaimon versus Makarios in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- L’interpretazione dei proemi dei dialoghi nel Commento all’Alcibiade I di Proclo
- Filone Alessandrino a Venezia nel ’500. Le prime traduzioni in volgare italiano
- Notes
- Un passo di Michele di Efeso e l’origine del commento composito all’Etica Nicomachea
- Reviews
- M. Laura Gemelli Marciano (a c. di): Presocratici. Volume I: Sentieri di sapienza attraverso la Ionia e oltre. Da Talete a Eraclito
- Anca Vasiliu, Elsa Grasso: Platon et la Pensée de l’image
- Pierre-Marie Morel: La nature et le bien. L’éthique d’Aristote et la question naturaliste
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Variazioni sul tema. Il cinismo antico e lo stile di vita: tra imitazione e interpretazione
- Aristotle on Platonic Efficient Causes. A Rehabilitation
- Aristotle’s Critique of Form-Number
- Yet Another Heuristic: Assessing Eudaimon versus Makarios in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- L’interpretazione dei proemi dei dialoghi nel Commento all’Alcibiade I di Proclo
- Filone Alessandrino a Venezia nel ’500. Le prime traduzioni in volgare italiano
- Notes
- Un passo di Michele di Efeso e l’origine del commento composito all’Etica Nicomachea
- Reviews
- M. Laura Gemelli Marciano (a c. di): Presocratici. Volume I: Sentieri di sapienza attraverso la Ionia e oltre. Da Talete a Eraclito
- Anca Vasiliu, Elsa Grasso: Platon et la Pensée de l’image
- Pierre-Marie Morel: La nature et le bien. L’éthique d’Aristote et la question naturaliste
