NATURE AND TELEOLOGY IN ARISTOTLE
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Aristotle, physics, metaphysics, nature, cause, teleology.Abstract
The aim of this paper is to offer an account of the relationship between teleology and nature in Aristotle's physics. In order to achieve this purpose, the article comprises two parts. Firstly, the reconstruction of the Aristotelian arguments that justify the thesis according to which “nature belongs to the kind of causes that act for the sake of something.” Secondly, the explanation of the role played by the eternal and immobile substance of Metaph. XII in this account. There are different interpretations about this point, but this article defends a minimalistic position about the connection between the prime unmoved mover and the natural order.References
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