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Darrera modificació: 2012-07-09
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Lindsay, John, "Aristotle's theory of colors", Vexillum: The Undergraduate Journal of Classical and Medieval Studies, 2 (2012), publ. electrònica.
- Resum
- This paper presents two Aristotelian explanations of color: a locational and a material. It presents both definitions, and then it focuses on his material explanation- specifically how to understand what black and white constitute and are constituted by. It argues that black and white are ontologically basic (not constituted by smaller particles). The amount of fire in the determinate body determines the amount of black and white particles, and a high degree of transparency decreases the proportion of black to white particles, and a low degree increases it. Considering the relationship between black and white and the basic qualities hot, cold, wet, and dry, the basic qualities determine which kind of determinate body is present, however, they do not constitute the black and white upon that body.
- Matèries
- Filosofia - Filosofia natural
Aristòtil
- URL
- http://www.vexillumjournal.org/vexillumjournal/inde ...
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