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Estudios de Filosofía
Print version ISSN 0121-3628
Abstract
AVARIA DECOMBE, Trinidad. The distinction between act and movement in Metaphysics IX 6. Estud.filos [online]. 2015, n.51, pp.87-108. ISSN 0121-3628. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ef.n51a06.
The distinction between act and movement stated in Metaphysics IX 6, 1048b18-35, has been the subject of a major controversy among contemporary interpreters. In this article I defend that the distinction does not conflict with the rest of book IX, nor with the Corpus Aristotelicum in general. Indeed, the distinction also appears in Nicomachean Ethics X 4 and in De Anima III 7. Furthermore, without this distinction the immobility of the first mover defended in Metaphysics XII would be unintelligible, since Aristotle says that the first mover is life, and that his activity is pleasure and thinking.
Keywords : act; movement; passage; activity; metaphysics.