Self-motion
Subtitle: from Aristotle to Newton
By: edited by Mary Louise Gill and James G. Lennox.
Contributors: Gill, Mary Louise, 1950-; Lennox, James G.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Aristotle.; Movement (Philosophy)
Description: The concept of self-motion is not only fundamental in Aristotle's argument for the Prime Mover and in ancient and medieval theories of nature, but it is also central to many theories of human agency and moral responsibility. In this collection of mostly new essays, scholars of classical, Hellenistic, medieval, and early modern philosophy and science explore the question of whether or not there are such things as self-movers, and if so, what their self-motion consists in.

They trace the development of the concept of self-motion from its formulation in Aristotle's metaphysics, cosmology, and philosophy of nature through two millennia of philosophical, religious, and scientific thought.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-342) and indexes.