Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Farzane Ghadamyari ¹
• Hossein Kalbasi Ashtari ²

¹ M.A in Philosophy, Allame Tabataba’i University, Literature & Foreign languages Faculty

² Professor of Philosophy, Allame Tabataba’i University, Literature & Foreign languages Faculty

Abstract

Analysis of the concept of inertia as the first law of motion in classical physics, on which the explanation of movement is based, and Aristotelian and classical physics as two intellectual mainstreams, which have been dominant for hundreds of years, is the main concern of this article. In this paper possibility of the concept of inertia in Aristotelian physics will be questioned and analyzed. It should be noted that the possibility of assigning the components of the two physics to each other or matching them has always been the concern of scholars. The findings of this paper indicate that Aristotle through discussing concepts of natural motion and forced motion implicitly mentioned the concept of inertia.

Keywords

• Aristotle
• inertia
• natural motion
• forced motion
• the ultimate cause