[lit-ideas] Peri geneseos kai phthoras

In a message dated 4/25/2009 2:27:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx writes:
In the late '50s, when Villa-Lobos was  seriously
ill, he was asked what he was composing. He
replied that he  wasn't composing; he was decomposing.

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Well, yes, also  Gilbert:


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Soon after the death of a well-known composer,  someone who did not keep up
with the news asked Gilbert what the maestro in  question was doing. "He is
doing nothing," replied Gilbert.
"Surely he is  composing," said the questioner.
"On the contrary," said Gilbert, "He is  decomposing."
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On Generation and Corruption Ancient Greek: Περὶ  γενέσεως καὶ
φθορᾶς, Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On  Coming to Be
and Passing Away) is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his  texts, it is
both scientific and philosophic (although not necessarily  scientific in the
modern sense). The philosophy, though, is dependent on the  scientific; as
in all Aristotle's works, the deductions made about the  unexperienced and
unobservable are based on observations and real  experiences.
The question raised at the beginning of the text builds on an  idea from
Aristotle's earlier work The Physics. Namely, whether things come into  being
through causes, through some prime material, or whether everything is
generated purely through "alteration."
From this important work Aristotle  gives us two of his most remembered
contributions. First, the Four Causes and  also the Four Elements (earth, wind,
fire and water). He uses these four  elements to provide an explanation for
the theories of other Greeks concerning  atoms, an idea Aristotle
considered absurd.
[edit] Bibliography
The most  recent and authoritative[1] Greek text is the Budé edition by
Marwan Rashed,  Aristote. De la géneration et la corruption. Nouvelle édition.
Paris: Les Belles  Lettres, 2005. ISBN 2-251-00527-7. This edition includes
a French translation,  notes and appendices, and a lengthy introduction
exploring the treatise's  contents and the history of the text.
[edit] External links
text  translated by H. H. Joachim

JLS

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