All Seminar Q&A, Complete on One Page
This is here just as a quick way to view all the Q&A (in reverse chronological order), e.g., in order to print them.
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Physics VIII.5: Q and A
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Physics VIII.4: Q and A
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Physics VIII.3: Q and A
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Physics VIII.2: Q and A
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Physics VIII.1: Q and A
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Preliminary question: Is change eternal, or did it have a beginning?
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Physics VII.1: What is the argument (here) that “there must be a first mover and a first moved”?
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Physics VII.1: What is Aristotle’s argument that everything that is in movement must be moved by something?
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Physics IV.14: For Aristotle, would time exist if there were no soul to count (see 223a15–28)?
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Physics IV.12: According to Aristotle, are eternal things (that always exist) in time?
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Physics IV.11–14: Aristotle’s definition of time seems to fit distance and degree of change; can it be rescued from this objection?
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Physics IV.11: How does Aristotle arrive at his definition of time as the number of motion in respect of before and after?
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Physics IV.11: What is Aristotle’s argument that time does not exist without change? Is it any good?
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Physics IV.10: What are “the puzzles concerning the things that belong to time”?
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Physics III.6: What is Aristotle’s theory of infinity?
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Physics III.5: What are Aristotle’s arguments that the infinite cannot be a substance (found at 204a7–33)?
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Physics III.5: What, briefly, are the conclusions of this collection of arguments?
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Physics III.4: Briefly, what theories of infinity does Aristotle catalog?
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Physics III.4: Why is natural philosophy concerned with infinity at all?
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Physics III.1-3: Notes on movement and change
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Physics II.3: If Aristotle is not simply analyzing causality in the modern sense, what is he analyzing?
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Physics II.2: How does the natural scientist differ from the mathematician, according to Aristotle?
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Physics II.1: What is Aristotle’s account of nature?
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Physics II.1–3: Initial questions and notes
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Laws X, 893b–899d: What is Plato’s positive argument from self-motion?
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Laws X, 891b–892c: What is the Athenian’s strategy for the refutation of the atheists?
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Laws X, 890b–891c: Why do the interlocutors find it important to argue at length that gods exist and are good?
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Laws X, 888e–890a. How does the Athenian reconstruct the atheists’ outlook?
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Laws X, 886b–887e. How can the Athenian say that it is “necessary…to hate” those not believing the stories of the gods, when just a page before he said he thought them false?
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Laws X, 886e–887b: In what way might Book X be a “preamble” or “prelude” to the laws?
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Laws X, 885c–885e: On what grounds would the imagined atheists demand that “persuasion be used on us first”?
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Laws X, 884a–885c: How does Plato segue from property law to dealing with impiety?
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Laws X.884a–900b: How does Plato’s approach to apologetics compare to that of modern Christian apologetics?
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Timaeus: Is Plato’s Demiurge sufficiently similar to the God revealed in Scripture and general revelation to serve as a foundation for Christian philosophy?
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Timaeus 37c–38e: What is Plato’s view on the nature and origin of time?
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Timaeus 31a–b: Why did Plato think the universe was unique?
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Timaeus 30a–d: What is Plato’s argument that the universe is “a living being”?
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Timaeus 29d–30b: What work does the assumption of the Demiurge’s goodness do for Plato?
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Timaeus 29d–30b: Why does Plato seem to assume that the Demiurge is “good”?
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Timaeus 29b–d: Why does Plato say that statements about a rational “model” must be “stable and reliable”?
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Timaeus 28a, etc.: Why do commentaries on Plato call his creator god “Demiurge”?
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Timaeus 28b–c: What makes Plato’s argument a “cosmological argument”?
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Timaeus 28c–29b: What does Plato mean by the “two kinds of model” for the universe?
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Timaeus 28b–c: What is Plato’s argument that there is a “maker and father of this universe of ours”?
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Timaeus 27d–28b: Why suppose the objects of sensation do not really have “being”?
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Timaeus 27d–28a: How does Plato distinguish between being and becoming?
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Timaeus 26e–28a: What relationship, if any, is there between the speeches by Critias and Timaeus?
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Timaeus 21d–26e: How well does Critias’ story of prehistoric Athens actually illustrate Socrates’ ideal city?
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Timaeus 19b–26e: What is the point of Critias’ long speech?
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Timaeus 17b–19a: Does the description of the previous day’s conversation suggest it was that of the Republic?