Aristotle's View On Coming-to-be

The thesis moots Aristotle's view on coming-to-be. The question of coming-to-be is the never-abandoned concern throughout Aristotle's philosophy and eventually leads it to come into being.In introduction, the author analyzes the reasons for the situation that the question of coming-to-be has been taken little notice of and illustrates its utter importance, establishes the "question" model research method of highlighting angles and attitudes, and examines the view on genesis in ancient Greek mythology and its relationship with philosophy. Greek philosophical genesis theories arise out of Greek mythology.The first and the second chapters make a preparation for the discussion of the question.The first chapter is the preliminary preparation, examining and categorizing the ways early natural philosophers speculated on becoming. Information shows that according to Ionian philosophy, all things emerge from one original "stuff" and ultimately are that "stuff". On the contrary, Parmenides focuses upon the truth of being and preaches down the phenomena of becoming. After the two kinds of incompatible theories comes the philosophy of pluralism, which holds that all generation and destruction proceed from more than one element. The three schools have one point in common—one being does not come out of nothing but out of...