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      Aristotle on the naturalness of death from old age

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      Author
      Kıymaz, Tufan
      Date
      2018
      Source Title
      Akdeniz İnsani Bilimler Dergisi
      Print ISSN
      2146-4812
      Electronic ISSN
      2148-144X
      Publisher
      Akdeniz Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi
      Volume
      8
      Issue
      20
      Pages
      427 - 436
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      In this work, I explore and critically evaluate Aristotle’s views on the naturalness of dying from old age. His views are not straightforward, because Aristotle regards old age as a kind of decay and he talks about decay sometimes as natural and sometimes as unnatural. Nature, according to Aristotle, has two aspects, matter and form. I argue that, in Aristotle’s system, decay is always materially natural but formally unnatural. Likewise, natural death is death caused by old age and although getting old is never formally natural, it is, in a particular sense, materially natural. In Aristotle’s view, getting old does not have the same mechanism as inorganic decay such as wine’s turning into vinegar, but it is a result of the materially natural decay of lungs, which leads to the exhaustion of the vital heat in the heart.
      Keywords
      Aristotle
      Formal nature
      Material nature
      Old age
      Death
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/54329
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.13114/MJH.2018.432
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