Abstract
This discussion note reviews recent discussions about the causality of the Immovable mover in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Λ, assessing the merits and difficulties of the interpretation according to which the Immovable mover of this book would be an efficient cause.
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- Mimesis, Friendship, and Moral Development in Aristotle’s Ethics
- Melissus’s So-called Refutation of Mixture
- Adrastus on Aristotle’s Cosmology The Peripatetic Exegesis of De Caelo and Metaphysics Λ
- Discussion Note on the Causality of the Immovable Mover
- Reviews
- Charles H. Kahn, Plato and the Post-Socratic Dialogue: The Return to the Philosophy of Nature
- Malcolm Wilson, Structure and Method in Aristotle’s Meteorologica: A More Disorderly Nature
- Jean De Groot, Aristotle’s Empiricism: Experience and Mechanics in the 4th Century BC
Keywords for this article
Aristotle;
First mover;
Immovable mover;
Efficient cause;
Final cause
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- Articles
- Mimesis, Friendship, and Moral Development in Aristotle’s Ethics
- Melissus’s So-called Refutation of Mixture
- Adrastus on Aristotle’s Cosmology The Peripatetic Exegesis of De Caelo and Metaphysics Λ
- Discussion Note on the Causality of the Immovable Mover
- Reviews
- Charles H. Kahn, Plato and the Post-Socratic Dialogue: The Return to the Philosophy of Nature
- Malcolm Wilson, Structure and Method in Aristotle’s Meteorologica: A More Disorderly Nature
- Jean De Groot, Aristotle’s Empiricism: Experience and Mechanics in the 4th Century BC