PHIL 753 Aristotle's Physics
This course is an introduction to the premodern science of nature as presented in the Physics of Aristotle. The Metaphysics and the Commentary on the Physics of Thomas Aquinas will also be used in presenting issues and clarifying difficult and often cryptic arguments. Two questions guide the reading: What is the internal unity of the work? What is the relation between Aristotle's Physics and our own tradition of natural science?