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Author | : Mark Sentesy |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2020-04-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0810141906 |
Download Aristotle's Ontology of Change Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that the analysis of change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality, sources of being, epigenesis, and teleology. He shows that Aristotle’s distinctive ontological claim—that being is inescapably diverse in kind—is anchored in his argument for the existence of change. Aristotle may be the only thinker to propose a noncircular definition of change. With his landmark argument that change did, in fact, exist, Aristotle challenged established assumptions about what it is and developed a set of conceptual frameworks that continue to provide insight into the nature of reality. This groundbreaking work on change, however, has long been interpreted through a Platonist view of change as unreal. By offering a comprehensive reexamination of Aristotle’s pivotal arguments, and establishing his positive ontological conception of change, Sentesy makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Aristotle, ancient philosophy, the history and philosophy of science, and metaphysics.
Author | : Devin Henry |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108475574 |
Download Aristotle on Matter, Form, and Moving Causes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism and its importance for understanding the process by which substances come into being.
Author | : Frans de Haas |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2004-09-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191553929 |
Download Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption I Book 1 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jaap Mansfeld and Frans de Haas bring together in this volume a distinguished international team of ancient philosophers, presenting a systematic, chapter-by-chapter study of one of the key texts in Aristotle's science and metaphysics: the first book of On Generation and Corruption. In GC I Aristotle provides a general outline of physical processes such as generation and corruption, alteration, and growth, and inquires into their differences. He also discusses physical notions such as contact, action and passion, and mixture. These notions are fundamental to Aristotle's physics and cosmology, and more specifically to his theory of the four elements and their transformations. Moreover, references to GC elsewhere in the Aristotelian corpus show that in GC I Aristotle is doing heavy conceptual groundwork for more refined applications of these notions in, for example, the psychology of perception and thought, and the study of animal generation and corruption. Ultimately, biology is the goal of the series of enquiries in which GC I demands a position of its own immediately after the Physics. The contributors deal with questions of structure and text constitution and provide thought-provoking discussions of each chapter of GC I. New approaches to the issues of how to understand first matter, and how to evaluate Aristotle's notion of mixture are given ample space. Throughout, Aristotle's views of the theories of the Presocratics and Plato are shown to be crucial in understanding his argument.
Author | : Aryeh Kosman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674075021 |
Download The Activity of Being Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Understanding “what something is” has long occupied philosophers, and no Western thinker has had more influence on the nature of being than Aristotle. Focusing on a reinterpretation of the concept of energeia as “activity,” Aryeh Kosman reexamines Aristotle’s ontology and some of our most basic assumptions about the great philosopher’s thought.
Author | : Piotr Jaroszyński |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2018-02-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004359877 |
Download Metaphysics or Ontology? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume treats the evolution of the object of metaphysics from being to the concept of being to, finally, the object. It examines metaphysics and ontology, and the history of these terms. It is relevant to scholars and philosophers.
Author | : Ursula Coope |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2005-10-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191530123 |
Download Time for Aristotle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.
Author | : Jeffrey E. Brower |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198714297 |
Download Aquinas's Ontology of the Material World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Pesents and explains the hylomorphic conception of the material world developed by Thomas Aquinas, proposing that the key to understanding Aquinas's conception lies in his distinctive account of intrinsic change.
Author | : Christian Pfeiffer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2018-07-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191085308 |
Download Aristotle's Theory of Bodies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Christian Pfeiffer explores an important, but neglected topic in Aristotle's theoretical philosophy: the theory of bodies. A body is a three-dimensionally extended and continuous magnitude bounded by surfaces. This notion is distinct from the notion of a perceptible or physical substance. Substances have bodies, that is to say, they are extended, their parts are continuous with each other and they have boundaries, which demarcate them from their surroundings. Pfeiffer argues that body, thus understood, has a pivotal role in Aristotle's natural philosophy. A theory of body is a presupposed in, e.g., Aristotle's account of the infinite, place, or action and passion, because their being bodies explains why things have a location or how they can act upon each other. The notion of body can be ranked among the central concepts for natural science which are discussed in Physics III-IV. The book is the first comprehensive and rigorous account of the features substances have in virtue of being bodies. It provides an analysis of the concept of three-dimensional magnitude and related notions like boundary, extension, contact, continuity, often comparing it to modern conceptions of it. Both the structural features and the ontological status of body is discussed. This makes it significant for scholars working on contemporary metaphysics and mereology because the concept of a material object is intimately tied to its spatial or topological properties.
Author | : Deborah K. W. Modrak |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521772664 |
Download Aristotle's Theory of Language and Meaning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a book about Aristotle's philosophy of language, interpreted in a framework that provides a comprehensive interpretation of Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology and science. The aims of the book are to explicate the description of meaning contained in De Interpretatione and to show the relevance of that theory of meaning to much of the rest of Arisotle's philosophy. In the process Deborah Modrak reveals how that theory of meaning has been much maligned.
Author | : Sarah Waterlow |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780198244820 |
Download Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This examination of Aristotle's concept of natural substance and its implications for change, process, agency, teleology, mathematical continuity, and eternal motion illustrates the conceptual power of Aristotle's metaphysics of nature along with its scientific limitations and internal tensions.