BC Advantage - 2019 Issue 4

IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CHANGE IT’S ABOUT THE TRANSITION

The basic principles of Aristotle’s philosophy of nature can be understood from his analysis of change. In his analysis, Aristotle discovered that every change implies duality. A subject undergoes change when the action of an external or intrinsic motion renders the subject to a different state.1 According to Aristotle, change presupposes the acquisition of something new and the disposition of something prior. Through the change process, motion acquires something new and loses what is previously had. Change implies a passive principle and an active principle. If you believe Aristotle’s philosophy of nature as understood by his...

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