The Structure of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781402015373
Subjects: Ancient Greek & Roman philosophy; Metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Metaphysics; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Metaphysics; Philosophy : Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy : History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Aristotle; Aristotle; Ontology
First sentence: Aristotle divides being into four types: per se being, accidental being, being as truth, and potential/actual being.
Description: "This book develops a new 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 that Aristotle's science of being has 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 Aristotle's world as both a static and a dynamic reality."--Jacket.
Notes: The New Synthese Historical Library