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This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary substances? Mary Louise Gill bases her treatment of the problem of unity, and of Aristotle's solution, on a fresh interpretation of the relation between matter and form. Challenging the traditional understanding of Aristotelian matter, she argues that material substances are subverted by matter and maintained by form that controls the matter to serve a positive end. The unity of material substances thus involves a dynamic relation between resistant materials and directive ends. Aristotle on Substance offers both a general account of matter, form, and substantial unity and a specific assessment of particular Aristotelian arguments. At every point, Gill engages Aristotle on his own philosophical ground through the detailed analysis of central, and often controversial, texts from the Metaphysics, Physics, On Generation and Corruption, De Anima, De Caelo, and the biological works. The result is a coherent, firmly grounded rethinking of Aristotle's central metaphysical concepts and of his struggle toward a fully consistent theory of material substances.
Matter --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Matière --- Substance (Philosophie) --- History --- Histoire --- Aristotle --- Contributions in matter --- Contributions in substance (Philosophy) --- Et la matière --- Et la substance (Philosophie) --- History. --- -Substance (Philosophy) --- -Matter --- Metaphysics --- Ontology --- Reality --- Atoms --- Dynamics --- Gravitation --- Physics --- -Aristotle --- -Arisṭāṭṭil --- Aristo, --- Aristote --- Aristotel --- Aristotele --- Aristoteles --- Aristóteles, --- Aristòtil --- Aristotile --- Arisṭū --- Arisṭūṭālīs --- Arisutoteresu --- Arystoteles --- Ya-li-shih-to-te --- Ya-li-ssu-to-te --- Yalishiduode --- Yalisiduode --- Ἀριστοτέλης --- Аристотел --- ארסטו --- אריםטו --- אריסטו --- אריסטוטלס --- אריסטוטלוס --- אריסטוטליס --- أرسطاطاليس --- أرسططاليس --- أرسطو --- أرسطوطالس --- أرسطوطاليس --- ابن رشد --- اريسطو --- Contributions in concept of matter --- Contributions in concept of substance --- -History --- -Contributions in concept of matter --- -Aristoteles --- Matière --- Et la matière --- Aristotle. --- Contributions in matter. --- Aristoteles. --- Arisṭāṭṭil --- Αριστοτέλης --- Pseudo Aristotele --- Pseudo-Aristotle --- アリストテレス --- Matiere --- Histoire. --- Et le concept de matiere. --- Et le concept de substance. --- Matter - History. --- Substance (Philosophy) - History. --- Albritton, R. --- Anaximander. --- Barnes, J. --- Cooper, J. --- Democritus. --- Empedocles. --- Furley, D. --- Greco, A. --- Grene, M. --- Happ, H. --- Heraclitus. --- Joachim. --- Kahn, C. --- Kostman, J. --- Lacey, A. R. --- Lennox, J. --- Loux, M. --- Mansion, A. --- Matthewson, P. --- Modrak, D. --- Owens, J. --- Parmenides. --- Prime Mover. --- Putnam, N. --- Rodier, G. --- Thales. --- Wedin, M. --- Wicksteed, P. H. --- Zabarella, I. --- aether. --- blood. --- categories: of change. --- contact. --- corpse. --- elemental transformation. --- essence. --- fetus. --- focal meaning. --- heavenly bodies. --- hylomorphic analysis. --- intellect. --- locomotion (change of place). --- organisms. --- paronymy. --- predication: accidental. --- receptacle. --- spatial. --- thisness. --- uniform materials. --- wearying.
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Plato famously promised to complement the Sophist and the Statesman with another work on a third sort of expert, the philosopher—but we do not have this final dialogue. Mary Louise Gill argues that Plato promised the Philosopher, but did not write it, in order to stimulate his audience and encourage his readers to work out, for themselves, the portrait it would have contained. The Sophist and Statesman are themselves members of a larger series starting with the Theaetetus, Plato's investigation of knowledge, and the whole series relies on the Parmenides, the second part of which presents a philosophical exercise, introduced as the first step in a larger philosophical program. Gill contends that the dialogues leading up to the missing Philosopher, though they reach some substantive conclusions, are philosophical exercises of various sorts designed to train students in dialectic, the philosopher's method; and that a second version of the Parmenides exercise, closely patterned on it, spans parts of the Theaetetus and Sophist and brings the philosopher into view. This is the exercise about being, the subject-matter studied by Plato's philosopher. Plato hides the pieces of the puzzle and its solution in plain sight, forcing his students (and modern readers) to dig out the pieces and reconstruct the project. Gill reveals how, in finding the philosopher through the exercise, the student becomes a philosopher by mastering his methods. She shows that the target of Plato's exercise is internally related to its pedagogical purpose.
Plato, --- Plato. --- Aflāṭūn --- Aplaton --- Bolatu --- Platon, --- Platonas --- Platone --- Po-la-tʻu --- Pʻŭllatʻo --- Pʻŭllatʻon --- Pʻuratʻon --- Πλάτων --- אפלטון --- פלאטא --- פלאטאן --- פלאטו --- أفلاطون --- 柏拉圖 --- 플라톤 --- Plato --- Platon --- Platoon --- Платон --- プラトン --- Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Philosophers, Ancient --- Sophists (Greek philosophy) --- Statesmen --- Statesmen - Greece
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History of philosophy --- Antiquity --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Philosophy, Ancient --- 1 <37/38> --- 1 <37/38> Filosofie: klassieke oudheid --- Filosofie: klassieke oudheid --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Philosophie ancienne
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This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary substances? Mary Louise Gill bases her treatment of the problem of unity, and of Aristotle's solution, on a fresh interpretation of the relation between matter and form. Challenging the traditional understanding of Aristotelian matter, she argues that material substances are subverted by matter and maintained by form that controls the matter to serve a positive end. The unity of material substances thus involves a dynamic relation between resistant materials and directive ends. Aristotle on Substance offers both a general account of matter, form, and substantial unity and a specific assessment of particular Aristotelian arguments. At every point, Gill engages Aristotle on his own philosophical ground through the detailed analysis of central, and often controversial, texts from the Metaphysics, Physics, On Generation and Corruption, De Anima, De Caelo, and the biological works. The result is a coherent, firmly grounded rethinking of Aristotle's central metaphysical concepts and of his struggle toward a fully consistent theory of material substances.
Substance (philosophie) --- Aristote --- Critique et interprétation.
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