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Full Idea
Aristotle's notion of matter, unlike ours, is of something that could be the inner origin of a natural being's behaviour.
Gist of Idea
Aristotle's matter is something that could be the inner origin of a natural being's behaviour
Source
report of Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], matter) by Charlotte Witt - Substance and Essence in Aristotle 3.1
Book Ref
Witt,Charlotte: 'Substance and Essence in Aristotle' [Cornell 1994], p.77
A Reaction
This conforms with my idea of matter, as something active, containing powers, not some inert stuff waiting for the hand of God to bring it into life.
12134 | Matter is the substratum, which supports both coming-to-be and alteration [Aristotle] |
12301 | Every distinct thing has matter, as long as it isn't an essence or a Form [Aristotle] |
16092 | In Aristotle, bronze only becomes 'matter' when it is potentially a statue [Aristotle, by Gill,ML] |
12300 | Aristotle's conception of matter applies to non-physical objects as well as physical objects [Aristotle, by Fine,K] |
12077 | Aristotle's matter is something that could be the inner origin of a natural being's behaviour [Aristotle, by Witt] |
12103 | Matter is secondary, because it is potential, determined by the actuality of form [Aristotle, by Witt] |
11255 | In feature-generation the matter (such as bronze) endures, but in generation it doesn't [Aristotle, by Politis] |
11204 | The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna] |
15309 | The assumption that shape and solidity are fundamental implies dubious 'substance' in bodies [Harré/Madden] |
12057 | Matter underlies things, composes things, and brings them to be [Wiggins] |
17531 | I assume matter is particulate, made up of 'simples' [Inwagen] |
16083 | Aristotelian matter seriously threatens the intrinsic unity and substantiality of its object [Gill,ML] |
13333 | The matter is a relatively unstructured version of the object, like a set without membership structure [Fine,K] |