Aristotle On Ontological Priority In The Categories

Author : Ana Laura Edelhoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 141 pages
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Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108875097

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Aristotle on Ontological Priority in the Categories by Ana Laura Edelhoff Pdf

The main objective of this Element is to reconstruct Aristotle's view on the nature of ontological priority in the Categories. Over the last three decades, investigations into ontological dependence and priority have become a major concern in contemporary metaphysics. Many see Aristotle as the originator of these discussions and, as a consequence, there is considerable interest in his own account of ontological dependence. In light of the renewed interest in Aristotelian metaphysics, it will be worthwhile - both historically and systematically - to return to Aristotle himself and to see how he himself conceived of ontological priority (what he calls 'priority in substance' [proteron kata ousian] or 'priority in nature' [proteron tēi phusei]), which is to be understood as a form of asymmetric ontological dependence.

Author : Michail Peramatzis,Michail M. Peramatzis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 342 pages
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Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199588350

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Priority in Aristotle's Metaphysics by Michail Peramatzis,Michail M. Peramatzis Pdf

The idea that some parts of reality are fundamental and others derivative was an important one in Aristotle's philosophical system, and is now again of great current interest in philosophy. Michail Peramatzis presents a new account of priority relations in Aristotle's metaphysics, and draws out their continuing philosophical significance.

Author : Michail Peramatzis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191618253

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Priority in Aristotle's Metaphysics by Michail Peramatzis Pdf

Michail Peramatzis presents a new interpretation of Aristotle's view of the priority relations between fundamental and derivative parts of reality, following the recent revival of interest in Aristotelian discussions of what priority consists in and how it relates existents. He explores how in Aristotle's view, in contradistinction with (e.g.) Quinean metaphysical views, questions of existence are not considered central. Rather, the crucial questions are: what types of existent are fundamental and what their grounding relation to derivative existents consists in. It is extremely important, therefore, to return to Aristotle's own theses regarding priority and to study them not only with exegetical caution but also with an acutely critical philosophical eye. Aristotle deploys the notion of priority in numerous levels of his thought. In his ontology he operates with the notion of primary substance. His Categories, for instance, confer this honorific title upon particular objects such as Socrates or Bucephalus, while in the Metaphysics it is essences or substantial forms, such as being human, which are privileged with priority over certain types of matter or hylomorphic compounds (either particular compound objects such as Socrates or universal compound types such as the species human). Peramatzis' chief aim is to understand priority claims of this sort in Aristotle's metaphysical system by setting out the different concepts of priority and seeing whether and, if so, how Aristotle's preferred prior and posterior items fit with these concepts.

Author : Javier Cumpa,Erwin Tegtmeier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 234 pages
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Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110329599

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Ontological Categories by Javier Cumpa,Erwin Tegtmeier Pdf

This volume is about ontological categories. The categories of an ontology are designed to classify all existents. They are crucial and characterize an ontology.

Author : John J. Cleary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
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Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038446717

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Aristotle on the Many Senses of Priority by John J. Cleary Pdf

Cleary discusses the origin, development, and use of the many senses of priority as a central thesis in Aristotle's metaphysics. Cleary contends that one of the most revealing problems for the ambiguity of Aristotle's relationship to Platonism is that of the ontological status of mathematical objects. In support of his claim, Cleary analyzes a curious passage from Aristotle's Topics, where he appears to accept a schema of priorities that makes mathematical entities more substantial than sensible things. How does Aristotle try to reconcile the ordering of things dictated by sciences like mathematics and dialectic with the ordering of sense experience upon which his own physics and metaphysics are based? To find the answer, Cleary reviews three different outlines of the many senses of priority given by Aristotle himself and found in Categories 12-13, Metaphysics Delta 11, and Metaphysics Theta 8. Cleary suggests there is an implicit hierarchy for Aristotle that leads him to posit the Prime Mover at its apex as complete actuality and, therefore, as the focus for the concept of priority. Having reviewed Aristotle's treatment of the many uses of priority, Cleary demonstrates how the concept is used in some typical arguments by Aristotle for his mature metaphysical positions.

Author : Michael Vernon Wedin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
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Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199253081

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Aristotle's Theory of Substance by Michael Vernon Wedin Pdf

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 : Lynne Spellman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 152 pages
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Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521892724

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Substance and Separation in Aristotle by Lynne Spellman Pdf

A new interpretation of Aristotle's metaphysics, a subject of considerable interest to all classical philosophers.

Author : Jiyuan Yu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401000550

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The Structure of Being in Aristotle’s Metaphysics by Jiyuan Yu Pdf

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.

Author : Tuomas E. Tahko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
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Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139502696

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Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics by Tuomas E. Tahko Pdf

Aristotelian (or neo-Aristotelian) metaphysics is currently undergoing something of a renaissance. This volume brings together fourteen essays from leading philosophers who are sympathetic to this conception of metaphysics, which takes its cue from the idea that metaphysics is the first philosophy. The primary input from Aristotle is methodological, but many themes familiar from his metaphysics will be discussed, including ontological categories, the role and interpretation of the existential quantifier, essence, substance, natural kinds, powers, potential, and the development of life. The volume mounts a strong challenge to the type of ontological deflationism which has recently gained a strong foothold in analytic metaphysics. It will be a useful resource for scholars and advanced students who are interested in the foundations and development of philosophy.

Author : Martha Husain
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 163 pages
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Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791489796

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Ontology and the Art of Tragedy by Martha Husain Pdf

Ontology and the Art of Tragedy is a sustained reflection on the principles and criteria from which to guide one's approach to Aristotle's Poetics. Its scope is twofold: historical and systematic. In its historical aspect it develops an approach to Aristotle's Poetics, which brings his distinctive philosophy of being to bear on the reception of this text. In its systematic aspect it relates Aristotle's theory of art to the perennial desiderata of any theory of art, and particularly to Kandinsky's.

Author : Anthony Preus,John P. Anton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 366 pages
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Release : 1992-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438416458

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Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy V by Anthony Preus,John P. Anton Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 42 pages
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Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066302016

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Categories (Κατηγορίαι) by Aristotle Pdf

The "Categories" is an ancient sub-text from Greek philosopher Aristotle's text 'Organon' that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. The work is brief enough to be divided, not into books as is usual with Aristotle's works, but into fifteen chapters. The Categories places every object of human apprehension under one of ten categories. Aristotle intended them to enumerate everything that can be expressed without composition or structure, thus anything that can be either the subject or the predicate of a proposition. They are "perhaps the single most heavily discussed of all Aristotelian notions".

Author : Calvin G. Normore
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
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Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031536663

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Grounding in Medieval Philosophy by Calvin G. Normore Pdf

Author : Paul Symington
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110322484

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On Determining What There is by Paul Symington Pdf

Generally, categories are understood to express the most general features of reality. Yet, since categories have this special status, obtaining a correct list of them is difficult. This question is addressed by examining how Thomas Aquinas establishes the list of categories through a technique of identifying diversity in how predicates are per se related to their subjects. A sophisticated critique by Duns Scotus of this position is also examined, a rejection which is fundamentally grounded in the idea that no real distinction can be made from a logical one. It is argued Aquinas's approach can be rehabilitated in that real distinctions are possible when specifically considering per se modes of predication. This discussion between Aquinas and Scotus bears fruit in a contemporary context insofar as it bears upon, strengthens, and seeks to correct E. J. Lowe's four-category ontology view regarding the identity and relation of the categories.

Author : Michael V. Wedin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019823855X

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Aristotle's Theory of Substance : The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta by Michael V. Wedin Pdf

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.