The Discovery of the Idea of Movement

Donald Phillip Verene

doi:10.5325/philrhet.57.1.0062

Philosophy & Rhetoric Jun 2024

The Discovery of the Idea of Movement

Donald Phillip Verene Emory University

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ABSTRACT That movement is associated with things both human and divine is as old as human experience. How does movement come to be formed as an idea, as an object of thought? For the answer we may turn to Aristotle’s De caelo, to Nicolas Oresme’s first graphic representation of movement in On Intensities, to Descartes’s essay on analytic geometry appended to his Discours de la méthode, and to Leibniz’s Monadologie as well as to Vico’s Scienza nuova and Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes. “Movement” is a central term in the transformation of Greco-Roman to Medieval scholastic to modern thought.

Journal: Philosophy & Rhetoric
Published: 2024-06-28
DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.57.1.0062
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