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:
“Is this the nature
Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue
The shot of accident nor dart of chance
Could neither graze nor pierce?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)