Philoponus: On Aristotle On Coming-to-Be and Perishing 1.1-5

The first five chapters of Aristotle''s De Generatione et Corruptione distinguish creation and destruction from mere qualitative change and from growth. They include a fascinating debate about the atomists'' analysis of creation and destruction as due to the rearrangement of indivisible atoms. Aristotle''s rival belief in the infinite divisibility of matter is explained and defended against the at...