On the first cause
65:11
Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
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11.
This throng of causes, defined by Aristotle and by Plato, embraces either too much or too little.
For if they regard as “causes” of an object that is to be made everything without which the object cannot be made, they have named too few.
Time must be included among the causes; for nothing can be made without time.
They must also include place; for if there be no place where a thing can be made, it will not be made.
And motion too; nothing is either made or destroyed without motion.
There is no art without motion, no change of any kind.
Book: Moral Letters Vol I
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the first cause
Location: Chapter 65, Section 11
Content:
11.
This throng of causes, defined by Aristotle and by Plato, embraces either too much or too little.
For if they regard as “causes” of an object that is to be made everything without which the object cannot be made, they have named too few.
Time must be included among the causes; for nothing can be made without time.
They must also include place; for if there be no place where a thing can be made, it will not be made.
And motion too; nothing is either made or destroyed without motion.
There is no art without motion, no change of any kind.