On Generation and Corruption: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 8 original MP3 tracks, 3:30:37 running time and a link to listen.
On Generation and Corruption, credited to Aristotle, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle. Read by Geoffrey Edwards 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 essentially empirical; 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). (Summary Adapted from Wikipedia)
Recording facts
- Recording title: On Generation and Corruption
- Author credits: Aristotle
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 8
- Listed recording duration: 3:30:37
Catalogue topics
- nonfiction
- Aristotle
- ancient Greek philosophers
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- science
- physics
- Four Causes
Track guide
- 01 - Book I Chapters 1-2 — 27:30
- 02 - Book I Chapters 3-4 — 25:20
- 03 - Book I Chapters 5-6 — 29:26
- 04 - Book I Chapters 7-8 — 28:49
- 05 - Book I Chapters 9-10 — 17:26
- 06 - Book II Chapters 1-5 — 34:17
- 07 - Book II Chapters 6-9 — 24:44
- 08 - Book II Chapters 10-11 — 23:10
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