Nature’s Perfection: Aristotle and Descartes on Motion and Purpose
Descartes holds that, insofar as nature is a purposeless, unthinking, extended substance, there could be no final causes in physics. Descartes’ derivation of his three laws of motion from the perfections of God thus underwrites a rejection of Aristotle’s conception of natural self-motion and teleolo...
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The NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory
2021-12-01
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| Col·lecció: | Conatus - Journal of Philosophy |
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