Author : Lynne Spellman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521892728
A new interpretation of Aristotle's metaphysics, a subject of considerable interest to all classical philosophers.
Author : Frank A. Lewis
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521391597
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.
Author : Michael Frede
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198237648
A distinguished group of scholars of ancient philosophy here presents a systematic study of the twelfth book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Lambda, which can be regarded as a self-standing treatise on substance, has been attracting particular attention in recent years, and was chosen as the focusof the fourteenth Symposium Aristotelicum, from which this volume derives. At the Symposium, each of Lambda's ten chapters was taken in turn as the subject of a session at which a specially written paper was read to and discussed by the assembled symposiasts. (The ninth chapter commanded twosessions by dint of its particular difficulty.) The papers have been revised in the light of discussion, and are now offered to a wider audience as a discursive commentary on points of particular philosophical interest covering all of Lambda. Michael Frede's extensive Introduction aims to give abroader view of Lambda as a whole and the problems it raises, and thus to provide the context for the discussion of each of the chapters. This volume will be a resource of great value and interest for anyone working on ancient metaphysics and theology.
Author : Devin Henry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1108475574
Examines Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism and its importance for understanding the process by which substances come into being.
Author : Jason W. Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108574777
This volume is the first in English to provide a full, systematic investigation into Aristotle's criticisms of earlier Greek theories of the soul from the perspective of his theory of scientific explanation. Some interpreters of the De Anima have seen Aristotle's criticisms of Presocratic, Platonic, and other views about the soul as unfair or dialectical, but Jason W. Carter argues that Aristotle's criticisms are in fact a justified attempt to test the adequacy of earlier theories in terms of the theory of scientific knowledge he advances in the Posterior Analytics. Carter proposes a new interpretation of Aristotle's confrontations with earlier psychology, showing how his reception of other Greek philosophers shaped his own hylomorphic psychology and led him to adopt a novel dualist theory of the soul–body relation. His book will be important for students and scholars of Aristotle, ancient Greek psychology, and the history of the mind–body problem.
Author : Michael Vernon Wedin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199253080
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.
Author : Piotr Jaroszyński
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9042021365
This book tries to uncover science's discoverer and explain why the conception of science has been changing during the centuries, and why science can be beneficial and dangerous for humanity. Far from being hermetic, this research can be interesting for all who want to understand deeper what really conditions the place of science in culture.
Author : Theodore Scaltsas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801476358
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.
Author : Errol G. Katayama
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 1999-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791443170
Investigates Aristotle's views on the ontological status of artifacts in the Metaphysics, with implications for a variety of metaphysical problems.
Author : Richard Bodeus
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791447284
This book argues that Aristotle used "the most traditional Greek ideas about the gods" to develop and defend his physical, metaphysical, and ethical teachings. This revolutionary thesis stands in stark contrast to studies of Aristotle's texts that normally portray him as a "natural theologian" using rational tools to elaborate his own conception of God or the gods. Bodeus argues that Aristotle is more closely aligned with popular Greek religion than is usually thought, and attention to the ethical and political writings reveals more about Aristotle's resources for conceiving the gods than study of his theoretical works.
