The Structure of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics

Jiyuan Yu

ISBN 10: 1402015372 / ISBN 13: 9781402015373

Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Sep 2003, 2003

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Neuware -In his Metaphysics, Aristotle claims that he is seeking to establish a science of being. Being, at the most general level, is divided by Aristotle into the following four types: 1. Accidental being 2. Being as truth 3. Potential/actual being l 4. Per se being Per se (kath hauto) being can also be translated as 'being in its own right' or 'intrinsic being'. This type of being has been referred to by Aristotle in different ways. The list of per se beings includes substance, quantity, quality, place, time, etc. , and this is also the list ofcategories. At Meta. ix. l, 1045b28 Aristotle calls this list the 'categories of being' (hai kategoriai tou ontos). At Meta. vi. 2, 1026a36 and ix. 1O, 1051a33-b2 per se being is called 'being with reference to the figures ofpredication' (ta schemata tes kategorias, or 'figures ofcategories,). 2 Of these four types of being, accidental being is briefly treated in Meta. vi. 2-3 and there Aristotle claims that the study of accidental being can be dismissed on the grounds that accidental being is indeterminate and cannot be 3 the object ofknowledge. He also does not pay much attention to being as truth and treats it briefly in two short texts: Meta. viA and ix. 1O.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: The Structure of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics
• Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Sep 2003
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1402015372
• ISBN 13: 9781402015373
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 241 L x 160 A x 20 P (millimetri) 241 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 20 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 571 grammi

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Riassunto

This book develops a new interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics. By exploring the significance of the long ignored distinction between being with regard to categories and being with regard to potentiality and actuality, the author presents that Aristotle's science of being has two distinct aspects: an investigation of the basic constituents of reality in terms of categories, predication, and definition, and an investigation which deals with change, process, and order of the world.

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Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1: Per se Being and Potential/actual Being. i. Per se being. ii. Potential/actual being. iii. The scope of the focal structure of being. 2: From Being to Substance. i. The focal connection of per se beings. ii. Potential/actual being and substance. iii. The science of being. 3: Hylomorphism and Its Two Approaches. i. The composition of substance. ii. Two hylomorphic approaches. iii. The new start of Metaphysics VII.17. iv. Re-grouping the central books. 4: Subject, Form, and Essence. i. Substance and subject. ii. Form and subject. iii. Substance and essence. iv. The identity of form and essence. 5: Form: Tode ti and Toionde. i. Primary reality and knowledge. ii. Separation, tode ti, and toionde. iii. Tode ti, particularity, and individuality. iv. Separation. v. Tode ti and definition. vi. Form as toionde. vii. The universal and toionde. viii. The ending of Metaphysics VII. 6: Substantial Potentiality and Actuality. i. Kinesis and energeia. ii. Substantial generation. iii. Substantial activity. iv. Substantial unity. 7: Actuality and the Prime Mover. i. From actual form to the Prime Mover. ii. The Prime Mover and eternity. iii. The Prime Mover and the world order. 8: The Unity of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Bibliography. Index of Passages. Name Index. Subject Index.