The Structure of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-94-010-3991-8
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

Reihe: The New Synthese Historical Library

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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. Kin?sis 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.- Index of Passages.- Name Index.