Aristotle's Theology by Aristotle

Author:Aristotle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2022-07-05T00:00:00+00:00

{85} Movement of Animals 4.699b32–700a5

Well, then, must there be something immovable and at rest outside the moved thing, which is no part of it, or not? In particular, is it necessary for this to be so also in the case of the universe? For it would seem strange if the starting-point of the movement were inside. That is why to those who think of it in this way Homer would appear to have spoken well:

But you could not drag from sky to earth

Zeus, the highest counsellor, not even if you toiled very hard.

Take hold, all you gods and all you goddesses!51

For what is wholly immovable cannot be moved by anything. Therein lies the resolution of the puzzle mentioned previously52—of whether it is possible or impossible for the structure of the heaven to be broken asunder: [it is impossible] if it depends on an immovable starting-point.53

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