Substance, Form, and Psyche: An Aristotelean Metaphysics - Brossura

Furth, Montgomery

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521035619 ISBN 13: 9780521035613

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Riassunto

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.

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Descrizione del libro

This book is a re-thinking of Aristotle's metaphysical theory of material substances. 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.

Contenuti

Preface; Part I. Cross and Intra-Categorical Prediction in the Categories; Part II. Substance in the Metaphysics: A First Approximation; Part III. The Zoological Universe; Part IV. Bio-Metaphysics; Part V. Metaphysics; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521035619
• ISBN 13: 9780521035613
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 316