PHI 2380 Final: 2015-03-18 - Aristotle, p. 42-50, 57-62.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2380
• Professor: Francisco Gonzalez

Document Summary

Animals, plants, and the elements are natural objects (substances) because they self-cause their motion, stability, and production (not coincidentally). Nature and substance remain the same through alterations. What is natural is in accordance with nature. Non-natural objects are those which do not self-cause. There are two kinds of nature; nature as matter and nature as form. Nature is the cause, while the form is the end. Given things naturally have defects, errors cannot be attributed to randomness. It is in their nature to be defective in some instances.