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 ====== Averroes and Aristotle's Book Zeta ======
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 Aristotle's Book Zeta introduces us to two primary kinds of generation: spontaneous and artistic. Aristotle's inquiry is: "Why [are] some things produced spontaneously as well as by art, e.g. health, while others are not, e.g. a house?" (…). Aristotle's goal, in other words, is to determine how things generate and why they do. For instance, why is health produced by two kinds of generation, while a house only one? To answer this, Aristotle looks to matter itself. Only matter that is capable of self-motion can be spontaneously generated, and in situations where this is impossible, an external mover is required to generate the matter. In Aristotle's words, "some matter is such as to be set in motion by itself and some is not of this nature, and of the former kind some can move itself in the particular way required, while other matter is incapable of this" (…). Averroes, in his commentary and analysis, takes this to imply, simply, things which are self-moved generate in a similar fashion to those which are generated by their like. Moreover, things generated from themselves, unlike those which are not generated as a result of their like, are generated in a similar manner to those things which in their matter there exists a power from which things come to be. To Averroes, what Aristotle means by this comment is that the generation of accidents is similar to the way the generation of substances that come to be from different kinds (441). Generation, therefore, only concerns things that have the same form but are numerically different.