PHIL 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Teleology
2 Jan 2016
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Of things some exist by nature, others by causes. Each has in themselves a principle of motion. No natural tendency of change or mobility. A principle and a cause of being moved or of test in things in which it belongs primarily/ not by accident. Things that exist by nature have natures. Aristotle talks about nature as both matter and form. Level of description lower than a proper thing the first underlying. Principle by which matter is gathered into a thing - shape or form according to a formula. It is by accident that the wood becomes a house or a bed. Particular principle of motion which is as it is owing to what i am formula that makes me, me. Not as a philosopher - but a human being. Who i am does not equal what i am or my nature. That from which change, motion, or coming to rest begins.
