more from Aristotle

From Physics, Book VII (Waterfield transl./Oxford). I love these sorts of passages in Aristotle:

“… pulling, pushing, carrying, and rotating. All changes of place are reducible to these four. For instance, pushing along is a kind of pushing… and pushing away is a kind of pushing… and so is throwing… Then again, pushing apart is a kind of pushing away, and pushing together is a kind of pulling… Also, breathing in is a kind of pulling and breathing out is a kind of pushing… But carrying and rotating are in their turn reducible to pushing and pulling.”

Let’s organize a conference called “On Pulling, Pushing, Carrying, and Rotating,” and see if we get any submissions.