Aristotle's theory of substance : the Categories and Metaphysics Zeta

The Resource Aristotle's theory of substance : the Categories and Metaphysics Zeta
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Aristotle's theory of substance : the Categories and Metaphysics Zeta
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the Categories and Metaphysics Zeta
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Michael V. Wedin
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  • enggrc
  • eng
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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
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index present
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Includes text in Greek
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B491.S8
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W43 2000
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non fiction
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bibliography

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