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Book Synopsis Aristotle's Theory of Substance by : Michael Vernon Wedin
Download or read book Aristotle's Theory of Substance written by Michael Vernon Wedin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. Two sources for these views are Categories and the central books of Metaphysics. This text argues that he is engaged in different projects in these books.
Book Synopsis Aristotle's Theory of Substance : The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta by : Michael V. Wedin
Download or read book Aristotle's Theory of Substance : The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta written by Michael V. Wedin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000-08-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction; I. The Plan of the Categories; II. Nonsubstantial Individuals; III. Commitment and Configuration in the Categories; IV. Tales of the Two Treatises; V. The Structure and Substance of Substance; VI. Form as Essence; VII. Zeta 6 on the Immediacy of Form; VIII. The Purification of Form; IX. Generality and Compositionality; X. Form and Explanation; Bibliography; Indexes.
Book Synopsis Substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics Zeta by : Norman O. Dahl
Download or read book Substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics Zeta written by Norman O. Dahl and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that according to Metaphysics Zeta, substantial forms constitute substantial being in the sensible world, and individual composites make up the basic constituents that possess this kind of being. The study explains why Aristotle provides a reexamination of substance after the Categories, Physics, and De Anima, and highlights the contribution Z is meant to make to the science of being. Norman O. Dahl argues that Z.1-11 leaves both substantial forms and individual composites as candidates for basic constituents, with Z.12 being something that can be set aside. He explains that although the main focus of Z.13-16 is to argue against a Platonic view that takes universals to be basic constituents, some of its arguments commit Aristotle to individual composites as basic constituents, with Z.17’s taking substantial form to constitute substantial being is compatible with that commitment. .
Book Synopsis Aristotle's Theory of Substance and Essence in the Categories and Book Zeta of the Metaphysics by : Daniel Charles Shartin
Download or read book Aristotle's Theory of Substance and Essence in the Categories and Book Zeta of the Metaphysics written by Daniel Charles Shartin and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How Aristotle gets by in Metaphysics Zeta by : Frank A. Lewis
Download or read book How Aristotle gets by in Metaphysics Zeta written by Frank A. Lewis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank A. Lewis presents a closely argued exposition of Metaphysics Zeta—one of Aristotle's most dense and controversial texts. It is commonly understood to contain Aristotle's deepest thoughts on the definition of substance and surrounding metaphysical issues. But people have increasingly come to recognize how little Aristotle says in Zeta about his own theory of (Aristotelian) form and matter. Instead, he spends the bulk of the book examining 'received opinions', often as filtered through his own Organon, but including above all the views of Plato, who is at times friend, and at times foe. For much of the time, we are left to reconstruct Aristotle's finished views, subject to the constraint that they survive the critique he directs in Zeta at the philosophical tradition. In this book, Lewis argues that in giving his actual conclusion to Zeta in its final chapter, 17, Aristotle drops his earlier, largely critical engagement with received views, and turns approvingly to his own Posterior Analytics. The result is a causal view of (primary) substance, representing the property of being a (primary) substance (or the substance of a thing) as, in modern dress, the second-order functional property of (Aristotelian) forms, that they be the cause of being for different compound material substances. The property of being the cause of being for a thing is a role property, and it is realized in different forms and the sets of causal powers associated with them, matching the variety of things that have a form as their substance. Meanwhile, the failure of previous attempts at definition in earlier chapters leaves Aristotle's own definition standing as the 'best explanation' for the views proprietary to the theory of form and matter. The point that (Aristotelian) forms are the primary substances is not the main conclusion to Zeta, but rather a result his definition must give, if the definition is to be acceptable.
Book Synopsis Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics by : Theodore Scaltsas
Download or read book Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics written by Theodore Scaltsas and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Theodore Scaltsas brings the insights of contemporary philosophy to bear on a classic problem in metaphysics that stems from Aristotle's theory of substance. Scaltsas provides an analysis of the enigmatic notions of potentiality and actuality, which he uses to explain Aristotle's substantial holism by showing how the concrete and the abstract parts of a substance form a dynamic, diachronic whole.
Book Synopsis Substance and Separation in Aristotle by : Lynne Spellman
Download or read book Substance and Separation in Aristotle written by Lynne Spellman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretation of Aristotle's metaphysics, a subject of considerable interest to all classical philosophers.
Book Synopsis Substance, Form, and Psyche by : Montgomery Furth
Download or read book Substance, Form, and Psyche written by Montgomery Furth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a re-thinking of Aristotle's metaphysical theory of material substances. The view of the author is that the 'substances' are the living things, the organisms: chiefly, the animals. There are three main parts to the book: Part I, a treatment of the concepts of substance and nonsubstance in Aristotle's Categories; Part III, which discusses some important features of biological objects as Aristotelian substances, as analysed in Aristotle's biological treatises and the de Anima; and Part V, which attempts to relate the conception of substance as interpreted so far to that of the Metaphysics itself. The main aim of the study is to recreate in modern imagination a vivid, intuitive understanding of Aristotle's concept of material substance: a certain distinctive concept of what an individual material object is.
Book Synopsis Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book Z by : Gabriele Galluzzo
Download or read book Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book Z written by Gabriele Galluzzo and published by Scuola Normale Superiore. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Metafisica Zeta", il trattato aristotelico dedicato alla sostanza, è stato al centro di un enorme dibattito negli ultimi cinquanta anni. Gli studiosi si sono concentrati su un certo numero di problemi connessi al trattamento essenzialistico che Aristotele propone della nozione di sostanza, come anche alla sua analisi degli oggetti concreti in termini di materia e forma (ileomorfismo). Questo volume offre uno sguardo d'insieme sul dibattito critico sullo sfondo della metafisica contemporanea, prevalentemente di matrice analitica. Esso si divide perciò in due parti. Nella prima, Mauro Mariani presenta alcune teorie moderne dell'essenza e illustra differenti punti di vista sulla struttura degli individui concreti e della loro identità. Nella seconda parte, invece, Gabriele Galluzzo considera i principali problemi filosofici e interpretativi posti dal libro Zeta, cercando di mettere ordine nell'intricato dibattito critico attraverso una valutazione dei meriti testuali e filosofici delle singole proposte esegetiche. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali
Book Synopsis Substance and Predication in Aristotle by : Frank A. Lewis
Download or read book Substance and Predication in Aristotle written by Frank A. Lewis and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1991 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes up the central themes of Aristotle's metaphysical theory and the various transformations they undergo prior to their full expresson in the Metaphysics.This book takes up the central themes of Aristotle's metaphysical theory and the various transformations they undergo prior to their full expresson in the Metaphysics.
Book Synopsis Aristotle on Substance by : Mary Louise Gill
Download or read book Aristotle on Substance written by Mary Louise Gill and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary substances? Mary Louise Gill bases her treatment of the problem of unity, and of Aristotle's solution, on a fresh interpretation of the relation between matter and form. Challenging the traditional understanding of Aristotelian matter, she argues that material substances are subverted by matter and maintained by form that controls the matter to serve a positive end. The unity of material substances thus involves a dynamic relation between resistant materials and directive ends. Aristotle on Substance offers both a general account of matter, form, and substantial unity and a specific assessment of particular Aristotelian arguments. At every point, Gill engages Aristotle on his own philosophical ground through the detailed analysis of central, and often controversial, texts from the Metaphysics, Physics, On Generation and Corruption, De Anima, De Caelo, and the biological works. The result is a coherent, firmly grounded rethinking of Aristotle's central metaphysical concepts and of his struggle toward a fully consistent theory of material substances.
Book Synopsis Aristotle's Theory of Substance in Metaphysics Zeta-Eta by : Hye-Kyung Kim
Download or read book Aristotle's Theory of Substance in Metaphysics Zeta-Eta written by Hye-Kyung Kim and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Realistic Theory of Categories by : Roderick M. Chisholm
Download or read book A Realistic Theory of Categories written by Roderick M. Chisholm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book can be viewed as a summation of Roderick Chisholm's views on an enormous range of topics in metaphysics and epistemology.
Book Synopsis Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics by : Theodore Scaltsas
Download or read book Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics written by Theodore Scaltsas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents fourteen new essays by leading figures in the fields of ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics, discussing Aristotle's theory of the unity of substances. This topic remains at the centre of metaphysical enquiry.The contributors examine the nature of essences, how they differ from other components of substance, and how they are related to these other components. The central questions discussed here are: What does Aristotle mean by 'potentiality' and 'actuality'? How do these concepts explicate matter andform, and how are they related to the actuality of substance? What is the role of matter and form in accounting for the unity, identity, and individuation of substances? These questions are crucial to an understanding of the unity of composite substances and their identity over time.The aim of the volume is both exegetical and philosophical: to address central issues in Aristotle's Metaphysics, and to stimulate further investigation of the problems and controversies that arise from these.
Download or read book Metaphysics written by Aristotle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura Castelli presents a new translation of the tenth book (Iota) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, together with a comprehensive commentary. Castelli's commentary helps readers to understand Aristotle's most systematic account of what it is for something to be one, what it is for something to be a unit of measurement, and what contraries are.
Book Synopsis Aristotle on Definition by : Marguerite Deslauriers
Download or read book Aristotle on Definition written by Marguerite Deslauriers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Aristotle offers us a consistent theory of definition, according to which a particular type of definition – one which states the formal cause of a simple item – is fundamental. It begins by considering definitions as indemonstrable first principles in demonstrations, and inquires how such definitions can have the certainty required by that role. Later chapters look to the Metaphysics to understand how the unity of definitions guarantees their certainty, and to the Topics to discover why definitions must be formulated in terms of the genus and differentia(e) of the object defined. This work contributes to our understanding of the connection between the function of definition in demonstration and its character as a statement of essence.
Book Synopsis A Map of Metaphysics Zeta by : Myles Burnyeat
Download or read book A Map of Metaphysics Zeta written by Myles Burnyeat and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
