The Structure of Being in Aristotle’s Metaphysics

By:

Jiyuan Yu

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Hardback

Series:

The New Synthese Historical Library

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This text develops an 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 Aristotle's science of being as having 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. The author argues that corresponding to the distinction between these two kinds of being, the central books of the Metaphysics contain not one, but two theories of substance, depending on whether the matter/form relation is associated with the potentiality/actuality relation. Together, these two studies of being and substance provide a complete picture of the Aristotle's world as both a static and a dynamic reality.

Release date Australia

September 30th, 2003

Author

Jiyuan Yu

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

XX, 238 p.

Pages

238

Series

The New Synthese Historical Library

Dimensions

156x234x15

ISBN-13

9781402015373

Product ID

2841875

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