Aristotle on Matter, Form, and Moving Causes: The Hylomorphic Theory of Substantial Generation by Devin Henry

Meister, Samuel

doi:10.1353/hph.2022.0009

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“…Initially, this is a claim developed in the Physics, but it becomes a general principle applied throughout his oeuvre, including the Politics. Although there is a lively scholarly dispute about exactly what Aristotle meant by hylomorphism (for a recent survey and contribution see Henry, 2019) one can establish the broad outlines. In short, an individual is a compound 12 of both matter (hyle) and form (morphe).…”

Section: Passing Through Simondonmentioning

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The Changing Nature of the Public Sphere

Henry

MacKenzie

2023

Journal of Social and Political Philosophy

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Can the public sphere be conceptualised in a manner that is non-reductive and inclusive? In this article, we survey the main literature on the public sphere and demonstrate that, despite apparent diversity, the dominant approaches to its conceptualisation share the same ‘matter and form’ or hylomorphic assumptions. In challenging these assumptions, our aim is to demonstrate that it is the hylomorphic model of the public sphere that prevents non-reductive conceptualisation of its essentially changing nature. Hylomorphic models of the public sphere, we argue, will never yield this result because they perpetuate established identities over emergent differences. We conclude that progress toward non-reductive and inclusive accounts of the public sphere would be best served by foregoing hylomorphic models in favour of ontogenetic ones, when thinking about the changing nature of the public sphere.

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Section: Passing Through Simondonmentioning

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The Changing Nature of the Public Sphere

Henry

MacKenzie

2023

Journal of Social and Political Philosophy

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Concocting Teleology in Aristotle’s Meteorology 4 and Generation of Animals

Kress

2024

Archiv Für Geschichte Der Philosophie

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Aristotle claims that in making an animal, nature acts like a “good housekeeper” who “is accustomed to throw out nothing from which it is possible to make something useful” (744b16–17). How does nature act when it “make[s] something useful” in these cases – and does it differ from other ways it acts? I defend two main claims. The first is that Meteor. 4.2’s distinction between two sorts of ‘concoction’ processes offers an underappreciated source of evidence for answering this question. My second claim concerns the nature of those processes and the ends they realize. While they are both the ends of their respective types of concoction, they differ in that some essential (process-defining) features of the second end – but not the first – are supplied by what the capacities of the “underlying” patient (on which the agent acts) are for. The result is a distinction between two kinds of end-directed efficient causation.

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Aristotle on Matter, Form, and Moving Causes: The Hylomorphic Theory of Substantial Generation by Devin Henry

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The Changing Nature of the Public Sphere

The Changing Nature of the Public Sphere

Concocting Teleology in Aristotle’s Meteorology 4 and Generation of Animals

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