The necessity in the constitutive process of natural compositions in Aristotle
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https://doi.org/10.31977/grirfi.v19i1.959Keywords:
Absolute necessity; Hypothetical necessity; Material causation; Teleology; Natural compositions; Aristotle.Abstract
With this paper, I intend to examine the manner in which the natural necessity, in its various aspects, would occur in the different compositional generative processes in Aristotle. In one case, natural necessity would be given in a "simple" or absolute way, through which aggregates are generated. In another, the natural necessity would be based on an earlier regulative or determinant principle, which Aristotle calls ex hypothesis (under hypothesis) necessity, with respect to the processes involved in the constitution of inanimate homogeneous bodies and living organisms. However, there would be an essential difference with respect to the compositional completion associated, on the one hand, with inanimate homogeneous bodies and, on the other, with living organisms. While the constituent completion of inanimate homogeneous compositions would be restricted only to the compositional whole and its characteristic properties, the completion of living organisms would correspond to the compositional whole and its characteristic properties, as well as this finish in view of the accomplishment of the organic-functional activities.
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