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:
“Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)