The document discusses Aristotle's work Physics and some of the key topics covered in the text. It addresses Aristotle's perspective on change as well as his response to other philosophers' notions of change. Aristotle believed three principles were necessary for change: an underlying subject, a lack, and a form. He also analyzed change in terms of four causes: material, formal, efficient, and final.

1. ARISTOTLE
PHYSICS

2. INTRODUCTION
 PHYSICS
 THE BOOK “PHYSICS” BY ARISTOTLE
 WHY IS ARISTOTLE CONCERNED
WITH PHYSICS

3. TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS
PRESENTATION
 ARISTOTLE ON CHANGE
 THREE PRINCIPLES OF CHANGE
 FOUR CAUSES
 DIALECTIC TIME-MOTION

4. ARISTOTLE ON CHANGE
 DIFFERENT NOTIONS PERTAINING TO
CHANGE FROM OTHER PHILOSOPHERS
 ARISTOTLE’S PERSPECTIVE ON CHANGE IN
“PHYSICS”
 RESPONSE TO OTHER PHILOSOPHERS
 ACCIDENTAL AND SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE

5. NOTIONS AND PUZZLES ON
CHANGE
 PLATO
1. HE NOTES THAT REAL THINGS DO NOT
CHANGE AS CHANGE IS RESTRICTED TO
THE REALMS OF APPEARANCES
2. THE PHYSICAL WORLD

6. NOTIONS AND PUZZLES ON
CHANGE
 PARMENIDES
1. DENIES THE EXISTENCE OF CHANGE.
2. WHAT IS CANNOT COME TO BE SINCE IT
ALREADY IS WHILE NOTHING CAN
COME TO BE FROM WHAT IS NOT.

7. NOTIONS AND PUZZLES ON
CHANGE
“WHAT IS CANNOT COME TO BE SINCE IT IS
ALREADY WHILE NOTHING CAN COME
TO BE FROM WHAT IS NOT”

8. ARISTOTLE’S ACCOUNT ON
CHANGE
 THE PREVIOUS STATEMENT
RESULTS IN AN IMPASSE.
 BECAUSE FOR ALL THINGS THAT
COME TO BE DO SO EITHER FROM
WHAT IS OR WHAT IS NOT
 WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE

9. ARISTOTLE’S ACCOUNT ON
CHANGE
 Conditions necessary for change
an underlying subject
a lack
a form

10. ARISTOTLE’S ACCOUNT ON
CHANGE
Some bronze, raw and unshaped is turned
into a statue

11. ARISTOTLE’S ACCOUNT ON
CHANGE
 The material cause: “that out of which”, the
bronze of a statue.
 The formal cause: “the form”, “the account of
what-it-is-to-be”, the shape of a statue.
 The efficient cause: “the primary source of the
change or rest”, e.g., the artisan, the art of
bronze-casting the statue, the man who gives
advice, the father of the child.
 The final cause: “the end, that for the sake of
which a thing is done”, beauty in the statue.

12. RESPONSE TO
PARMENIDES

13. ACCIDENTAL CHANGE