Source books · Natural philosophy
On Generation and Corruption
Peri geneseōs kai phthoras
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Natural philosophy
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
- Public attention
- Major Wikipedia has an article about it in 13 languages.
Read it
- Read at classics.mit.edu ↗ classics.mit.edu
From Wikipedia
On Generation and Corruption, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away, is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific, part of Aristotle's biology, and philosophic. The philosophy is essentially empirical; as in all of Aristotle's works, the inferences made about the unexperienced and unobservable are based on observations and real experiences.
From the Wikipedia article On Generation and Corruption, revision 1370495187, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q1180640: “work by Aristotle”.