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Single Idea 610

[from 'Metaphysics' by Aristotle, in 28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof ]

Full Idea

How is there to be an arrangement of the world at all, in the absence of something eternal, separable and permanent?

Gist of Idea

The world can't be arranged at all if there is nothing eternal and separate

Source

Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1060a21)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.322