
HoP 040 - Let's Get Physical - Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle's Philosophy of Change
Change is when something that already exists gains a new feature or loses a feature it already had. Aristotle illustrates with the example of a man bcoming musical. The greek word for potentiality is dunamus, which is how we get our word dynamic. Actuality translates entelece, which roughly means completeness and energy.
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