ASPECTS OF NECESSARY PROCESSES AND GENERATING PRINCIPLES IN THE ANALYSIS OF THE ALIVE BEINGS IN ARISTÓTELES
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Hylemorphism. Hypothetical necessity. Absolute necessity. Geometric necessity. Organic generation.Abstract
In this paper, I’ll try to make an argumentative line from which an examination is made of certain procedural aspects of naturally necessary character, and about certain generative principles that Aristotle would to make use to develop his research, concerning the compositional nature of living organisms. In order to do so, I shall proceed first to discern the various ways in which the sense of necessity could be analyzed in the context of the study of the structural and constitutive specificity that living beings could properly be examined. And, secondly, I’ll try to relate these forms or these aspects of understanding the natural necessity - as explanatory factors of organic composition -, with the ways in which Aristotle would understand the foundations of the generative processes, relative to the domain of the living. With this, I hope to contribute in some way to an elucidation of general character as to the following question: to what extent living beings, according to the Aristotelian conception of nature, preserve themselves as such, that is, as a kind of singular ontic existence, in the natural reality?
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