The Perfection of Bodies: Aristotle’s De Caelo I.1

Author:

Betegh Gábor1,Pedriali Francesca2,Pfeiffer Christian3

Affiliation:

1. Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Nádor utca 9, H-1051, Budapest, Hungary

2. Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin

3. Lehrstuhl für Philosophie III, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, D-80539 München

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper we give a detailed reconstruction of the first chapter of De Caelo I.1. Aristotle attempts to prove there that bodies are complete and perfect in virtue of being extended in three dimensions. We offer an analysis of this argument and argue that it gives important insight into the role the notion of body plays in physical science. Contrary to other interpretations, we argue that it is an argument about physical, as opposed to mathematical, bodies and that the perfection and completeness of bodies is due to their nature. Moreover, Aristotle heavily relies in his proof on the premise that the number three implies perfection, a view he ascribes to the Pythagoreans. We review the possible sources of this view, as well as its role in Aristotle’s argumentative strategy.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy

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