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Encounters with Aristotle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Malcolm Schofield
Malcolm Schofield
Affiliation:
St John'S College, Cambridge
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Abstract

Of this batch of books1 the one I found most compelling reading was Sarah Waterlow's Nature, Change and Agency. This work is an intense meditative commentary on the most important portions of the Physics; it probes beneath the text of Aristotle's loosely organized treatise to exhibit its deep structure. Waterlow attempts to show how Aristotle's apparently independent and self-contained discussions in Books I, II, III-IV and VIII all rest on a single notion, viz. that the world consists of natural substances, understood as things engaged each in a unitary pattern of change whose source and determining plan is within themselves.

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Philosophy , Volume 59 , Issue 229 , July 1984 , pp. 392 - 402
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1984

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References

1 Jonathan, Barnes, Aristotle (Oxford University Press, 1982), 101 pp., £6.95, £1.50 paper; Abraham Edel, Aristotle and his Philosophy (London: Croom Helm, 1982), xii+479 pp., £14.95; W. K. C., Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume Six: Aristotle: An Encounter (Cambridge University Press, 1981), xvi+456 pp., £30; Aristotle's Physics, Books III and IV, translated with Notes by Edward, Hussey (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), xlix+226 pp., £13.50, £6.95 paper; Sarah Waterlow, Nature, Change and Agency in Aristotle's Physics: A Philosophical Study (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), 269 pp., £17.50; Sarah Waterlow, Passage and Possibility: A Study of Aristotle's Modal Concepts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), 165 pp., £10.50; Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione, translated with Notes by C. J. F., Williams (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), xvi+239 pp., £12.50, £6.25 paper; Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, Books I, II and VIII, translated with a Commentary by M. J., Woods (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), xii+234 pp., £11.50, £5.95 paper.Google Scholar