History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps HoP 365 - Spirits in the Material World - Telesio and Campanella on Nature
Jan 31, 2021
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Radical Yet Incremental Break With Aristotle
- Telesio and Campanella mounted a radical but incremental rejection of Aristotelian hylo-morphism.
- They proposed simpler principles (matter, heat, cold) to explain natural change and phenomena.
Heat, Cold, And Corporeal Matter As Substances
- Telesio reduced the explanatory principles to matter, heat (form), and cold (privation).
- He treated matter as corporeal substance whose total quantity never changes and called many properties accidental.
Active Principles Show Crude Sensation
- Telesio argued heat and cold act as active, self-preserving agents that seek similar and repel dissimilar.
- From this behavior he infers that even heat and cold possess crude sensation or responsiveness.