Книга только для ознакомления
. And the same is true in all other cases.
12
'Potency' means (1) a source of movement or change, which is in
another thing than the thing moved or in the same thing qua other;
e.g. the art of building is a potency which is not in the thing built,
while the art of healing, which is a potency, may be in the man
healed, but not in him qua healed. 'Potency' then means the source, in
general, of change or movement in another thing or in the same thing
qua other, and also (2) the source of a thing's being moved by another
thing or by itself qua other. For in virtue of that principle, in
virtue of which a patient suffers anything, we call it 'capable' of
suffering; and this we do sometimes if it suffers anything at all,
sometimes not in respect of everything it suffers, but only if it
suffers a change for the better--(3) The capacity of performing this
well or according to intention; for sometimes we say of those who
merely can walk or speak but not well or not as they intend, that they
cannot speak or walk. So too (4) in the case of passivity--(5) The
states in virtue of which things are absolutely impassive or
unchangeable, or not easily changed for the worse, are called
potencies; for things are broken and crushed and bent and in general
destroyed not by having a potency but by not having one and by lacking
something, and things are impassive with respect to such processes
if they are scarcely and slightly affected by them, because of a
'potency' and because they 'can' do something and are in some positive
state
|
