Did Aristotle Fail in Physics? Part 6

Premise B: Jaki critiques Aristotle's "Meteorologica."

I have two more posts after this: one on Jaki’s comments about an eternally cycling universe as a result of an organismic world view and the last on the conclusion with more about what Jaki thought about Aristotle and what I think about Jaki’s work means for us today.

Once again, here’s the argument again from Part 1:

Premise A—>An organismic world view causes a failure in physics. (Part 2, 3)
Premise B—>Aristotle held an organismic world view. (Part 4, 5, 6, 7)
Therefore, Aristotle failed in physics. (Part 8)

This post continues examination of Premise B with respect to Jaki’s commentary on Aristotle’s Meteorologica. Jaki gives a detailed analysis of Aristotle in Relevance of Physics (1966) pages 22-30. I focus on that book, as well as Aristotle’s texts.

Meteorologica Commentary

After On the Heavens in Relevance, Jaki turns from the celestial realm to the terrestrial sublunary world of Aristotle’s Meteorologica. Aristotle’s ideas of atmospheric physics and geophysics show that he remaine…