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Motion and Motion´s God: Thematic Variations in Aristotle, Cicero, Newton, and Hegel

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Written in a time in which cosmology hasn´t yet figured that each big-bang couldn´t deploy changing structures above the microphysical scale until some particles (but not all of them) have been endowed with inertia, through the Higgs mechanism or either any other; namely, that time series couldn´t get macriphysical before some 45000 years after a big bang like our local one.

Author(s): Michael J Buckley
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 1971

Language: English
Pages: 296
City: Princeton, N. J.
Tags: Time; origin of time; nature of time; time in Aristotle; time in Cicero; time in Newton; time in Hegel; theology; Aristotle´s theology; Cicero´s theology;Newton´s theology; Hegel´s theology;History of Ideas;Philosophy, history;Physics, history;Bergson;Catholic theology;

INTRODUCTION: Problem and Procedure 3

PART I. ARISTOTLE
I. Problematic Method 15
II. Nature: Hypothesis of Physics 30
III. The Definition of Motion 39
IV. Motions, Mobiles, and Movers 44
V. The Eternality of Motion 50
VI. The Unmoved Mover: The Principle of Motion 55
VII. The Unmoved Mover: The Principle of Being 73

PART II. CICERO
VIII. Operational Method 89
IX. The Existence of the Gods 104
X. The Identification of the Gods 121
XI. The Nature of the Gods 123
XII. The Judgment of Cicero 145

PART ΙΠ. NEWTON
XIII. Logistic Method 159
XIV. Through Definition to Principle 171
XV. Absolute Motion 178
XVI. Motion in Statement and System 186
XVII. The God of Natural Philosophy 193

PART IV. HEGEL
XVIII. Dialectical Method 207
XIX. The True as Movement 226
XX. The Contingent as Motion 232
XXI. Nature as Motion 244
XXII. God as Motion 254

CONCLUSION: Theme and Pluralism 267
INDEX OF PERSONS 277
INDEX OF SUBJECTS 280