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The Resource Aristotle's theory of substance : the Categories and Metaphysics Zeta, Michael V. Wedin

Aristotle's theory of substance : the Categories and Metaphysics Zeta, Michael V. Wedin

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"Aristole's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. The two main sources for these views are the Categories and the central books of the Metaphysics, particularly book Zeta. The Categories offers a theory of underlying ontological configurations, while book Zeta gives form the status of primary substance because it is primarily the form of a concrete object that explains its nature, and this form is the substance of the object. So when the late theory identities primary substance with form, it appeals to an explanatory primacy that is quite distinct from the ontological primacy that dominates the Categories. Wedin's new interpretation thus allows us to see the two treatises as complementing rather than contradicting each other: they are parts of a unified theory of substance."--Jacket
Language
  • enggrc
  • eng
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Publication
Extent
xiii, 482 pages
Contents
  • 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: Z.13's worries about form
  • X. Form and explanation
  • Bibliography
  • Index locorum
  • General index
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9780198238553
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Aristotle's theory of substance : the Categories and Metaphysics Zeta
Title
Aristotle's theory of substance
Title remainder
the Categories and Metaphysics Zeta
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Michael V. Wedin
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Language
  • enggrc
  • eng
Summary
"Aristole's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. The two main sources for these views are the Categories and the central books of the Metaphysics, particularly book Zeta. The Categories offers a theory of underlying ontological configurations, while book Zeta gives form the status of primary substance because it is primarily the form of a concrete object that explains its nature, and this form is the substance of the object. So when the late theory identities primary substance with form, it appeals to an explanatory primacy that is quite distinct from the ontological primacy that dominates the Categories. Wedin's new interpretation thus allows us to see the two treatises as complementing rather than contradicting each other: they are parts of a unified theory of substance."--Jacket
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UKM
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1943-
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Wedin, Michael V.
Index
index present
Language note
Includes text in Greek
LC call number
B491.S8
LC item number
W43 2000
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Aristotle
  • Aristotle
  • Aristote
  • Aristote
  • Aristote
  • Aristote
  • Aristoteles
  • Aristoteles
  • Aristoteles
  • Aristotle
  • Aristote (0384-0322 av. J.-C.)
  • Aristote (0384-0322 av. J.-C.)
  • Aristote
  • Substance (Philosophy)
  • Metaphysica (Aristoteles)
  • Categoriae (Aristoteles)
  • Substanz
  • Metaphysik
  • Substance (philosophie)
  • Substance (Philosophy)
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Aristotle's theory of substance : the Categories and Metaphysics Zeta, Michael V. Wedin
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
Content type code
  • txt
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Contents
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: Z.13's worries about form -- X. Form and explanation -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- General index
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
xiii, 482 pages
Isbn
9780198238553
Lccn
00708880
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)42745495
  • (OCoLC)ocm42745495
Label
Aristotle's theory of substance : the Categories and Metaphysics Zeta, Michael V. Wedin
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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: Z.13's worries about form -- X. Form and explanation -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- General index
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
xiii, 482 pages
Isbn
9780198238553
Lccn
00708880
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)42745495
  • (OCoLC)ocm42745495

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