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Brought to you by | provisional account Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/12/15 3:13 PM MOTION AND MOTION'S GOD Brought to you by | provisional account Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/12/15 3:13 PM Thematic Variations in Aristotle, Cicero, Newton, and Hegel MOTION AND Brought to you by | provisional account Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/12/15 3:13 PM MOTION'S GOD BY MICHAEL J. BUCKLEY, SJ. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 1971 Brought to you by | provisional account Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/12/15 3:13 PM Copyright © 1971 by Princeton University Press ALL RIGHTS RESERVED LC Card: 73-/32234 ISBN: 0-691-07124-1 This book has been composed in Linotype Granjon Printed in the United States of America by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey Brought to you by | provisional account Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/12/15 3:13 PM For My Brother Jesuits Brought to you by | provisional account Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/12/15 3:13 PM Brought to you by | provisional account Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/12/15 3:13 PM CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Problem and Procedure 3 PART I. ARISTOTLE I. Problematic Method 15 II. Nature: Hypothesis of Physics 30 III. The Definition of Motion 39 IV. Motions, Mobiles, and Movers 44 V. The Eternality of Motion 50 VI. The Unmoved Mover: The Principle of Motion 55 VII. The Unmoved Mover: The Principle of Being 73 PART II. CICERO VIII. Operational Method 89 IX. The Existence of the Gods 104 X. The Identification of the Gods 121 XI. The Nature of the Gods 123 XII. The Judgment of Cicero 145 PART ΙΠ. NEWTON XIII. Logistic Method 159 XIV. Through Definition to Principle 171 XV. Absolute Motion 178 XVI. Motion in Statement and System 186 XVII. The God of Natural Philosophy 193 Brought to you by | provisional account Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/12/15 3:13 PM CONTENTS PART IV. HEGEL KVIII. Dialectical Method 207 XIX. The True as Movement 226 XX. The Contingent as Motion 232 XXI. Nature as Motion 244 XXII. God as Motion 254 CONCLUSION: Theme and Pluralism 267 INDEX OF PERSONS 277 INDEX OF SUBJECTS 280 viii Brought to you by | provisional account Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/12/15 3:13 PM MOTION AND MOTION'S GOD Brought to you by | provisional account Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/12/15 3:13 PM

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