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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Famous quotes containing the word accident:
“We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)