Accident (philosophy)

Accident (philosophy)

Accident, as used in philosophy, is an attribute which may or may not belong to a subject, without affecting its essence. The word "accident" has been employed throughout the history of philosophy with several distinct meanings.


Corpus Aristotelicum
Logic (Organon):
Categories – Prior Analytics
Posterior Analytics
On Interpretation – Topics
Sophistical Refutations
Physics or Natural philosophy:
Physics – On the Heavens
On Generation and Corruption
Meteorology – On the Soul
History of Animals
Metaphysics:
Metaphysics
Ethics and Politics:
Nicomachean Ethics
Eudemian Ethics – Magna Moralia
On Virtues and Vices
Politics – Economics
Constitution of the Athenians
Rhetoric and Poetics:
Rhetoric – Poetics
Spurious Works:
On the Universe – Mechanics

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