The Monist, October 1st, 2001
Introduction: The (in)compatibility of Aristotelian and corpuscularian theories of matter
There are many good reasons for seeing Aristotelian hylemorphism and atomism as diametrically opposed theories of matter. Aristotle himself had forcefully combatted the physical model of Leucippus and Democritus, whose ontology consisted of indivisible material bodies (atoms) moving in an immaterial void (vacuum), presenting his own model as an alternative. This alternative excluded both indivisibles and the void and postulated instead a plenist world made up of substances all of which were infinitely ...
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