Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle's Cosmology: On the Heavens, On Generation and Corruption

Aristotle's cosmology is, on the one hand, a synthesis of earlier Greek philosophy and the beginning of physics as a natural science, but on the other hand it has been an epistemological obstacle in the process of the formation of modern natural science at times of scientific revolution. Aristotle's royal road to cosmology is his Physics. Aristotle's cosmology in de Caelo has some well-known fundamental "first suppositions : universe is corporeal, eternal, unique, spherical etc. Many interpretations of Aristotle's cosmology omitted the corporeality of the world. This omission was the origin of an entire series of controversies about the principle of matter. Aristotle's hypothesis that light versus heavy is not only a relative determination is very important because it prevents the annihilation of the element of earth. The human being is connected with the everyday environment through his senses. The matter of sense organs consists of all four simple bodies: earth, water, air, and fire. World and God are the last two rings that surround a human being. Listening to nature is the measure of both contemporary cosmology and for our way of being in the world.