Substance In Aristotle S Metaphysics Zeta

Author : Norman O. Dahl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030221614

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Substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics Zeta by Norman O. Dahl Pdf

This book argues that according to Metaphysics Zeta, substantial forms constitute substantial being in the sensible world, and individual composites make up the basic constituents that possess this kind of being. The study explains why Aristotle provides a reexamination of substance after the Categories, Physics, and De Anima, and highlights the contribution Z is meant to make to the science of being. Norman O. Dahl argues that Z.1-11 leaves both substantial forms and individual composites as candidates for basic constituents, with Z.12 being something that can be set aside. He explains that although the main focus of Z.13-16 is to argue against a Platonic view that takes universals to be basic constituents, some of its arguments commit Aristotle to individual composites as basic constituents, with Z.17’s taking substantial form to constitute substantial being is compatible with that commitment. .

Author : Michael Vernon Wedin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
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 : Frank A. Lewis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191640643

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How Aristotle gets by in Metaphysics Zeta by Frank A. Lewis Pdf

Frank A. Lewis presents a closely argued exposition of Metaphysics Zeta—one of Aristotle's most dense and controversial texts. It is commonly understood to contain Aristotle's deepest thoughts on the definition of substance and surrounding metaphysical issues. But people have increasingly come to recognize how little Aristotle says in Zeta about his own theory of (Aristotelian) form and matter. Instead, he spends the bulk of the book examining 'received opinions', often as filtered through his own Organon, but including above all the views of Plato, who is at times friend, and at times foe. For much of the time, we are left to reconstruct Aristotle's finished views, subject to the constraint that they survive the critique he directs in Zeta at the philosophical tradition. In this book, Lewis argues that in giving his actual conclusion to Zeta in its final chapter, 17, Aristotle drops his earlier, largely critical engagement with received views, and turns approvingly to his own Posterior Analytics. The result is a causal view of (primary) substance, representing the property of being a (primary) substance (or the substance of a thing) as, in modern dress, the second-order functional property of (Aristotelian) forms, that they be the cause of being for different compound material substances. The property of being the cause of being for a thing is a role property, and it is realized in different forms and the sets of causal powers associated with them, matching the variety of things that have a form as their substance. Meanwhile, the failure of previous attempts at definition in earlier chapters leaves Aristotle's own definition standing as the 'best explanation' for the views proprietary to the theory of form and matter. The point that (Aristotelian) forms are the primary substances is not the main conclusion to Zeta, but rather a result his definition must give, if the definition is to be acceptable.

Author : Theodore Scaltsas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Substance (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0801476356

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Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics by Theodore Scaltsas Pdf

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 : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : OCLC:300424877

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Aristotle Metaphysics by Aristotle Pdf

Presents the full text of "Metaphysics," by Aristotle, presented by the Perseus Project of the Department of Classics at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Includes author information and help for texts and text tools. Offers Greek text with morphological links. Links to the home page of the Perseus Project.

Author : Michael Loux,Michael J. Loux
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 0801474884

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Primary Ousia by Michael Loux,Michael J. Loux Pdf

Michael J. Loux here presents a fresh reading of two of the most important books of the Metaphysics, Books Z and H, in which Aristotle presents his mature theory of primary substances (ousiai). Focusing on the interplay of Aristotle's early and late views, Loux maintans that the later concept of ousia should be understood in terms of a theory of predication that carries interesting implications for contemporary metaphysics. Loux argues that in his first attempt in identifying ousiai in the Categories, Aristotle encountered a set of ontological problems which he wrestled with again in Metaphysics Z and H. In the Categories, where the primary realities are basic subjects of predication construed in essentialist terms as things falling under natural kinds, familiar particulars are the primary ousiai. In subsequent works, Aristotle holds that since familiar particulars come into being and pass away, they must be composites of matter and form; and in Metaphysics Z and H, he explores the implications of this insight for the search for ousia. Maintaining that the substantial forms of familiar particulars are the primary ousiai, the later Aristotle interprets forms as predicable universals rather than as particulars, each uniquely possessed by a single object.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141912011

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The Metaphysics by Aristotle Pdf

The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hardheaded view that all processes are ultimately material. He argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms, and in so doing he probed some of the deepest questions of philosophy: What is existence? How is change possible? And are there certain things that must exist for anything else to exist at all? The seminal notions discussed in The Metaphysics - of 'substance' and associated concepts of matter and form, essence and accident, potentiality and actuality - have had a profound and enduring influence, and laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy.

Author : Gabriele Galluzzo,Mauro Mariani
Publisher : Scuola Normale Superiore
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015066781710

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Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book Z by Gabriele Galluzzo,Mauro Mariani Pdf

"Metafisica Zeta", il trattato aristotelico dedicato alla sostanza, è stato al centro di un enorme dibattito negli ultimi cinquanta anni. Gli studiosi si sono concentrati su un certo numero di problemi connessi al trattamento essenzialistico che Aristotele propone della nozione di sostanza, come anche alla sua analisi degli oggetti concreti in termini di materia e forma (ileomorfismo). Questo volume offre uno sguardo d'insieme sul dibattito critico sullo sfondo della metafisica contemporanea, prevalentemente di matrice analitica. Esso si divide perciò in due parti. Nella prima, Mauro Mariani presenta alcune teorie moderne dell'essenza e illustra differenti punti di vista sulla struttura degli individui concreti e della loro identità. Nella seconda parte, invece, Gabriele Galluzzo considera i principali problemi filosofici e interpretativi posti dal libro Zeta, cercando di mettere ordine nell'intricato dibattito critico attraverso una valutazione dei meriti testuali e filosofici delle singole proposte esegetiche. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199682980

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Metaphysics by Aristotle Pdf

Laura Castelli presents a new translation of the tenth book (Iota) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, together with a comprehensive commentary. Castelli's commentary helps readers to understand Aristotle's most systematic account of what it is for something to be one, what it is for something to be a unit of measurement, and what contraries are.

Author : Michael V. Wedin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,5 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.

Author : Montgomery Furth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521035619

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Substance, Form, and Psyche by Montgomery Furth Pdf

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.

Author : Myles Burnyeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113672062

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A Map of Metaphysics Zeta by Myles Burnyeat Pdf

Author : Michael Frede,David Owain Maurice Charles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198237642

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Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda by Michael Frede,David Owain Maurice Charles Pdf

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 : Jonathan Beere,Jonathan B. Beere
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199206704

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Doing and Being by Jonathan Beere,Jonathan B. Beere Pdf

Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "actuality" and "activity" as translations of energeia, and by working out an analogical conception of energeia. This approach enables Beere to discern a hitherto unnoticed connection between Plato's Sophist and Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta, and to give satisfying interpretations of the major claims that Aristotle makes in Metaphysics Theta, the claim that energeia is prior in being to capacity (Theta 8) and the claim that any eternal principle must be perfectly good (Theta 9).

Author : Theodore Scaltsas,David Owain Maurice Charles,Mary Louise Gill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 0199244413

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Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics by Theodore Scaltsas,David Owain Maurice Charles,Mary Louise Gill Pdf

This volume presents fourteen new essays by leading figures in the fields of ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics, discussing Aristotle's theory of the unity of substances. This topic remains at the centre of metaphysical enquiry.The contributors examine the nature of essences, how they differ from other components of substance, and how they are related to these other components. The central questions discussed here are: What does Aristotle mean by 'potentiality' and 'actuality'? How do these concepts explicate matter andform, and how are they related to the actuality of substance? What is the role of matter and form in accounting for the unity, identity, and individuation of substances? These questions are crucial to an understanding of the unity of composite substances and their identity over time.The aim of the volume is both exegetical and philosophical: to address central issues in Aristotle's Metaphysics, and to stimulate further investigation of the problems and controversies that arise from these.