ISBN:
9789401000550
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XX, 238 p)
,
digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 52
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Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
;
Philosophy, classical
;
Metaphysics
;
Philosophy, Ancient.
;
Philosophy.
;
Philosophy—History.
Abstract:
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. The author argues that corresponding to the distinction between these two kinds of being, the central books of the Metaphysics contain not one, but two theories of substance, depending on whether the matter/form relation is associated with the potentiality/actuality relation. Together, these two studies of being and substance provide a complete picture of Aristotle's world as both a static and a dynamic reality. The book will be of interest to all those who wish to gain a better understanding of Aristotle's Metaphysics
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-010-0055-0
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