El concepto aristotélico de violencia

Abstract

Violence represents, in aristotle, one of the senses of real necessity: exactly the one that is contrary to hypothetical necessity which is characteristic of the natural phenomena and of the artificial productions ("physics" ii, 7-9); whatever, supposing the end, thwarts it, is violent. the aristotelic expression "para physin" admits two senses: a broad one according to which it designates what is marginated from nature ("praeter naturam") and a strict one according to which it designates what is directly contrary to nature ("contra natura"). in an ample sense, the unforeseen, which is a cause by accident is "para physin"; in a strict sense is "para physin" the violence, which as the unforeseen refers to the efficient cause, but it is not "kata symbebekos", but "kath' hauto".