or fire, are generated and destroyed in this way, only by aggregation and segregation, and are not in any other sense generated or destroyed, but remain eternally.
From these facts one might think that the only cause is the so-called material cause; but as Italia Drakter men thus advanced, the very facts opened the way for them and joined in forcing them to investigate the subject. However true it may be that all generation and Eliseu Drakter destruction proceed from some one or (for that matter) from more elements, why does this happen and what is the cause? For at least the substratum itself does not make itself change; e.g. neither the wood nor the bronze causes the change of either of them, nor does the wood manufacture a bed and the bronze a statue, but something else is the cause of the change. And to seek this Gregoire Defrel Drakter is to seek the second cause, as we should say,-that from which Danilo Drakter comes the beginning of the movement. Now those who at the very beginning set themselves Layvin Kurzawa Drakter to this kind of inquiry, and said the substratum was one, were not at all dissatisfied with themselves; but some at least of those who maintain it to be one-as though defeated by this search for the second cause-say the one and nature as a whole is unchangeable not only in respect of generation and destruction (for this is a primitive belief, and all agreed in it), but also of all other change; and this view is peculiar to them. Of those who said the universe was one, then none Toni Kroos Drakter succeeded in discovering a cause of this sort, except perhaps Parmenides, and he only inasmuch as he supposes that there is not only one but also in some sense two causes. But for those who make more elements it is more possible to state the second cause, e.g. for those who make hot and cold, or fire and earth, the elements; for they treat Fernandinho Drakter fire as having a nature which fits it to move things, and water and earth and such things they treat in the contrary way.
When these men and the principles of this kind had had their day, as the latter were found inadequate to generate the nature of things men were again forced by the truth itself, as we said, Marko Rog Drakter to inquire into the next kind of cause. For it is not likely either that fire or earth or any such element should be the reason why things manifest goodness and, beauty both in their being and in their coming to be, or that those thinkers should have supposed it was; nor again could it be right to entrust so great a matter to spontaneity and chance. When one man said, then, that reason was present-as in Thiago Silva Drakter animals, so throughout nature-as the cause of order and of all arrangement, he seemed like a sober man in contrast with the random talk of his predecessors. We know Walia that Anaxagoras certainly adopted these views, but Hermotimus of Clazomenae Leonel Vangioni Drakter is credited with expressing them earlier. Those who thought thus stated that there is a principle of Cameron Borthwick-Jackson Drakter things which is at the same time the cause of beauty, and that sort of cause from which things acquire movement.
Book I Chapter 4
One might suspect that Hesiod was the first to look for such a thing-or some one else who put lovelinks:
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