Time and Action in Aristotle's Philosophy
Natali, Carlo
Time and Action in Aristotle's Philosophy - 2002.
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According to a few interpreters, with Aristotle, action is in time only by accident and is timeless in essence. Such an opinion is criticized here through an analysis of the concept of "being in time" in Phys., IV, 12. Action does not rest in time in the same way movement does: that is, intended as it is to reach some kind of end. There’s a difference between achieving an end that needs some time to be produced and carrying out an action having its own self as end, and which unfolds over some period of time. But that does not necessarily entail that action is in time just by accident: action is given as data being measured by time though this may not be its nature as such. Action is in time in the same way as substances composed both of matter and form.
Time and Action in Aristotle's Philosophy - 2002.
35
According to a few interpreters, with Aristotle, action is in time only by accident and is timeless in essence. Such an opinion is criticized here through an analysis of the concept of "being in time" in Phys., IV, 12. Action does not rest in time in the same way movement does: that is, intended as it is to reach some kind of end. There’s a difference between achieving an end that needs some time to be produced and carrying out an action having its own self as end, and which unfolds over some period of time. But that does not necessarily entail that action is in time just by accident: action is given as data being measured by time though this may not be its nature as such. Action is in time in the same way as substances composed both of matter and form.
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