ARISTOTLE AND HIS WORLD VIEW FRANZ BRENTANO Edited and translated by Rolf George and Roderick M. Chisholm UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley * LosAngeles ¢ LondonUniversity of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England Copyright © 1978 by The Regents of the University of California ISBN: 0-520-03390-6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-50245 Printed in the United States of America 1234567890Contents Preface to the English Edition ... vii Preface ......... xi Life 1 Writings . 0.0... eee eee cece eee eee eee ees 6 Wisdom 0 NT The Object of Human Wisdom .. . 20 Clarification of Terms ste secs eee eeeeeeseeees 23 Immediate Knowledge .................eeeeeeeneeeee 24 Two Classes of Immediately Evident Truths, the First of Which Is That of Immediately Evident Facts ........ 25 Axioms 28 Mediate Knowledge ........... 0.0. e ee eee eee e eee eee 34 The Origin of Ideas ........... 0... sees eee eee eee 36 TheT i f Sut ial Definiti 3 Substantial Changes. Matter and Form ................ 45 The Non-Exi £ Conti s ial Transf . No Coming to Be From Nothing, and No Passing Away Into Nothing .. 49 The Law of Synonymy ............... 50 Existence of an Absolutely Necessary Being 54 There Exists a Single, Purposeful Intelligence First C: f the Entire World O 58 This Intelligence Is the First Cause Not Only of All Order but Also of All Being .. In Contemplating Itself It Is All-Wise an Wholly Blissful, and Its Nature Is Its Wisdom {Its Wisdom Its Bli 6 This Intelligence Is the Love of All That Is Good and the Almighty Will That Wills the Best .......... 67