[...]... introduction of arguments supporting atomism in Democritean terms, Sedley suggests, Aristotle first grants the atomists a reply to the Aristotelian objection that infinite division is infinite only in potentiality Editors Introduction 3 With the actualitypotentiality distinction taken on board, the atomist position can be enhanced by arguing that potential division at least implies the possibility of... perception Given that matter is indefinitely divisible it is impossible to envisage a situation in which any bit of an original ingredient will not be alongside other bits of the same ingredient What is more, since mixture is based on reciprocal qualitative affection throughout, it is perfectly possible that parts of the mixture derive from a single ingredient only Introduction: Aristotle on the Foundations... with the aim of clarifying the problems he himself is confronted with For him qualitative affection cannot be based on either similarity or dissimilarity without jeopardizing key tenets of his physics In this way Aristotle prepares the reader for his own solution: qualitative affection occurs among contrary qualities, flavours, colours, and the like, involving both identity in genus and difference in... discussions of not-being simpliciter in GC I 3 and Physics I 8 respectively Sarah Broadie considers the issue of prime matter in dealing with GC I 4, where Aristotle addresses the difference between substantial change and alteration, and refines the position he outlined in Physics I 67 Broadie discusses two main interpretations of GC I 4: If alteration is an exchange of pathe in a persistent hupokeimenon,... Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas, and Zabarella (a d 15331589) with their modern counterparts GC I 6 divides into two sections: a methodological section on the need to define a number of preliminary notions, and a section devoted to the first of these notions, contact Natali shows how Aristotles definition of contact, which is required by both monist and pluralist theories alike, is fundamental to action and passion, and. .. understand action and passion, and a fortiori to understand mixture, which involves reciprocal action and passion, the Aristotelian physicist requires a properly physical notion of contact This has to be narrower in scope than the general definition of contact given in Physics V 2, according to which there is contact whenever two distinct magnitudes have their extremities together That suffices for...This page intentionally left blank Editors Introduction Frans A J de Haas The first book of Aristotles De generatione et corruptione is a difficult text which deals with a number of key notions in Aristotles physics, and does so at a high level of abstraction These characteristics may serve to explain the choice of the Symposiasts for GC I: it is indispensable because it deals with key notions of Aristotles. .. been treated in our discussion of action and reaction [GC I 67], where it is laid down in what classes of things action and reaction exist (GA IV 3 768b1625; trans Platt, with modifications) The slackening is a special case of GC Is reciprocal action and passion A reader may be forgiven for finding Aristotles examples unhelpful, to say the least, when it comes to understanding the interaction between... his most scrupulous attention In his discussion of GC I 1 Jacques Brunschwig carefully considers the relationships between GC and other parts of the Aristotelian corpus, and between the treatises that now constitute GC He identifies the question whether and how generation and alteration are to be distinguished as the central issue of his chapter It dominates Aristotles discussion of the Presocratics,... metaphysical notion of subject (hupokeimenon) These considerations dislodge a traditional line of interpretation which regarded GC I as preparing only the discussion, in GC II, of the four elements, their transformations, and the homoeomerous mixtures which they make up Although GC I is indeed concerned with these physical foundations, its references to the order of argument and exposition of the physical . Natali 8. On Generation and Corruption I. 7: Aristotle on poiein and paschein 219 Christian Wildberg 9. On Generation and Corruption I. 8 243 Edward Hussey 10 . On Generation and Corruption I. . the Aristotelian objection that infinite division is infinite only in potentiality. 2 Editor’s Introduction With the actuality–potentiality distinction taken on board, the atomist position can. On Generation and Corruption I. 265 David Sedley 3. On Generation and Corruption I. 3: Substantial Change and the Problem of Not-Being 91 Keimpe Algra 4. On Generation and Corruption I. 4: Distinguishing