Auteur(s) : Anton-Hermann CHROUST (Univ. of Notre Dame, USA)
Titre : The “Great Deluge” in Aristotle's on Philosophy
Revue : L’Antiquité Classique
Volume : 42
Date : 1973
Pages : 113-122

Abstract:
In order to maintain his thesis that the universe and its component parts, including human civilization or culture, are indestructable and uncreated; and at the same time, in order to explain the historical « ups and downs » of human civilization or culture, in Book I of his On Philosophy Aristotle probably advanced the theory that at certain intervals human civilization or culture is reduced to its most primitive state by great deluges.