num_pages: 186
description: Aristotle sets the horizons of our What is it when we say we know something? And is the object of knowledge a universal or particular [ tode ti ] object? Aristotle’s critique of Plato’s theory of form/Forms in light of his notion of actuality has generated a variety of topics that frame our “Understanding Eidos as Form in the Works of Aristotle as Plato’s Critical Student”; “Aristotle on Plato’s Forms as Causes”; “Notes on the Relationship between Plato’s Parmenides and Aristotle’s Metaphysics Alpha ”; “‘Separate’ and ‘Inactive’? Aristotle’s Most Challenging Critique of Plato’s ‘Forms’”; “Too Much Unity in a City Is Destructive of the Aristotle against Plato’s Unification Project of the Polis”; “Aristotle on the Soul as Actuality”; “Delphic Piety in the De Anima of Alexander of Aphrodisias”; “Aristotle and Act and Potency and the Two Acts”; and “Al-Fārābīon Habit and Imagination.” Here, the Peripatetic readings of form and actuality are parsed from the precipice of historical, analytic, and continental approaches to the mind/language/object problem, with advocacy of the importance of Aristotle’s contribution to this inquiry for the present age.
language: English
title: The Odyssey of Eidos: Reflections on Aristotle's Response to Plato