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The article is dedicated to the notion of local motion, which is the most important feature of bodily beings in peripateticism in general, and specifically thomism as the one of its form. By means of comparative approach and the method of system analysis on the basis of the original medieval sources, an influence of Avicenna and Aristoteles on Aquinas’ teaching on bodies through the notion of movement is being explained. Also, the place of a local motion among other types of motions (e.g. generation, corruption, alteration etc.) is clarified, as well as a foundation of a hierarchy of dimensions (lines, surfaces and bodies). It is also shown that the notion of place has the twofold explanation: as dimensional limits of the body and an ontological integrative principle of beings. Equation of forced motion and motion through an agent is shown as misapprehension, whereas differences between both is explained.
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