The discovery of things
Subtitle: Aristotle's Categories and their context
By: Wolfgang-Rainer Mann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Aristotle.; Categories (Philosophy) -- History
Description: "Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naive, prephilosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a revolutionary metaphysical picture, one Aristotle arrives at by (implicitly) criticizing Plato and Plato's strange counterparts, the "Late-Learners" of the Sophist. As Mann shows, the Categories reflect Aristotle's discovery that ordinary items are things (objects with properties).

Put most starkly, Mann contends that there were no things before Aristotle."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes