Nature

Philosophy of Nature

Natural Philosophy Principles

• I. Logical Notions
  • Forms, Being, and Knowledge
  • Substance and Accident
• II. Change and Motion
  • The Problem of Change
    • Three Principles of Change
    • Accidental Change
    • Substantial Change
  • Motion
    • Kinds of Motion
    • Two Kinds of Alteration
• III. The Four Causes
  • Material Cause
    • Prime Matter: Principle of potency for substantial change
    • Proximate Matter: What material substances are made from
    • Virtual Presence: Chemical elements in complex substances
    • What Underlies the Conversion between Particles and Energy
    • Principle of Corruptibility
    • Principle of Individuation
  • Formal Cause
  • Efficient Cause
    • General Principles of Causality
      • Whatever is moved, is moved by another
      • Every agent acts insofar as it is in act
      • Nothing causes except by an act which it possesses.
    • Principle of Proportionate Causality (resemblance between cause and effects) Formal
      • Virtual
      • Eminent
    • Causal Subordination
      • Incidental (per accidens)
      • Essential (per se)
    • First Cause of Motion, Efficient Causality, and Existence
  • Final Cause

Natural Philosophy and Chemical Processes.

Heavenly Bodies from Questions

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