Онтологическият статус на физичното и метафизичното действие при Аристотел
The Ontological Status of the Physical and the Metaphysical Action According Aristotle

Summary/Abstract: Aristotle distinguishes physical from metaphysical action, considering change in substance, quantity, quality and space as physical action and casual action as metaphysical. The relation of these types of action with the different ways of being determines their ontological status. Metaphysical action causes physical action and is predicated to the highest way of being — the unmovable mover, which is concluded from Aristotelian notion of potential infinity. Aristotle permits eternity of physical movement as potential infinity and states that such a potential infinity cannot cause itself. Hence, the cause for physical action is metaphysical, however Aristotle points several arguments, that casual action cannot be potential infinity, which confirm the higher ontological status of metaphysical action.

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