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Animal and celestial motion: the role of an external springboard: De Motu Animalium 2–3

Abstract:: This contribution comments on Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium 2–3 (MA 2–3). In these chapters Aristotle first claims that animal self-motion requires something eternal to the animal that is unmoved. He then poses the question whether, if something moves the whole heavens, there must be something that is unmoved and external. It is perplexing that Aristotle brings up this question in the discussion of animal self-movement. The contribution suggests that the realization that there must be an unmoved mover in the case of heavenly motion motivates the search for something to play that role in the case of animal self-motion.

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Coope, U. (2020). Animal and celestial motion: the role of an external springboard: De Motu Animalium 2–3. In C. Rapp & O. Primavesi (Eds.), Aristotle's De motu animalium: Symposium Aristotelicum (1st ed., pp. 240–272). Oxford University Press.

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Coope, U. “Animal and Celestial Motion: the Role of an External Springboard: De Motu Animalium 2–3.” Aristotle's De Motu Animalium: Symposium Aristotelicum, edited by C Rapp and O Primavesi, 1st ed., Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 240–72.

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Coope, U. 2020. “Animal and Celestial Motion: the Role of an External Springboard: De Motu Animalium 2–3.” In Aristotle's De Motu Animalium: Symposium Aristotelicum, edited by C Rapp and O Primavesi, 1st ed., 240–72. Oxford University Press.
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Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: HUMS
Department:: Philosophy Faculty
Oxford college:: Keble College
Role:: Author

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Role:: Editor

Role:: Editor

Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Host title:: Aristotle's De motu animalium: Symposium Aristotelicum
Pages:: 240-272
Chapter number:: 2
Place of publication:: Oxford
Publication date:: 2020-10-15
Edition:: 1st
DOI:: 10.1093/oso/9780198835561.003.0005
ISBN:: 9780198835561

Language:: English
Keywords:: SBTMR

self-mover

movement

mover

Atlas

universe

heaven
Subtype:: Chapter
Pubs id:: 195011
Local pid:: pubs:195011
Deposit date:: 2023-03-10

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Copyright holder:: Ursula Coope
Copyright date:: 2020
Rights statement:: © the several contributors 2020.

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