The Metaphysics
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Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2004-05-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0141912014 |
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The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hardheaded view that all processes are ultimately material. He argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms, and in so doing he probed some of the deepest questions of philosophy: What is existence? How is change possible? And are there certain things that must exist for anything else to exist at all? The seminal notions discussed in The Metaphysics - of 'substance' and associated concepts of matter and form, essence and accident, potentiality and actuality - have had a profound and enduring influence, and laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199682984 |
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Laura Castelli presents a new translation of the tenth book (Iota) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, together with a comprehensive commentary. Castelli's commentary helps readers to understand Aristotle's most systematic account of what it is for something to be one, what it is for something to be a unit of measurement, and what contraries are.
Author | : Vine Deloria, Jr. |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1555917666 |
Download The Metaphysics of Modern Existence Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Vine Deloria Jr., named one of the most influential religious thinkers in the world by Time, shares a framework for a new vision of reality. Bridging science and religion to form an integrated idea of the world, while recognizing the importance of tribal wisdom, The Metaphysics of Modern Existence delivers a revolutionary view of our future and our world.
Author | : Edward C. Halper |
Publisher | : Parmenides Publishing |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2005-01-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1930972474 |
Download One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The problem of the one and the many is central to ancient Greek philosophy, but surprisingly little attention has been paid to Aristotle's treatment of it in the Metaphysics. This omission is all the more surprising because the Metaphysics is one of our principal sources for thinking that the problem is central and for the views of other ancient philosophers on it.The Central Books of the Metaphysics are widely recognized as the most difficult portion of a most difficult work. Halper uses the problem of the one and the many as a lens through which to examine the Central Books. What he sees is an extraordinary degree of doctrinal cogency and argumentative coherence in a work that almost everyone else supposes to be some sort of patchwork. Rather than trying to elucidate Aristotle's doctrines-most of which have little explicitly to do with the problem, Halper holds that the problem of the one and the many, in various formulations, is the key problematic from which Aristotle begins and with which he constructs his arguments. Thus, exploring the problem of the one and the many turns out to be a way to reconstruct Aristotle's arguments in the Metaphysics. Armed with the arguments, Halper is able to see Aristotle's characteristic doctrines as conclusions. These latter are, for the most part, supported by showing that they resolve otherwise insoluble problems. Moreover, having Aristotle's arguments enables Halper to delimit those doctrines and to resolve the apparent contradiction in Aristotle's account of primary ousia, the classic problem of the Central Books. Although there is no way to make the Metaphysics easy, this very thorough treatment of the text succeeds in making it surprisingly intelligible.
Author | : Michael Frede |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198237648 |
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A distinguished group of scholars of ancient philosophy here presents a systematic study of the twelfth book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Lambda, which can be regarded as a self-standing treatise on substance, has been attracting particular attention in recent years, and was chosen as the focusof the fourteenth Symposium Aristotelicum, from which this volume derives. At the Symposium, each of Lambda's ten chapters was taken in turn as the subject of a session at which a specially written paper was read to and discussed by the assembled symposiasts. (The ninth chapter commanded twosessions by dint of its particular difficulty.) The papers have been revised in the light of discussion, and are now offered to a wider audience as a discursive commentary on points of particular philosophical interest covering all of Lambda. Michael Frede's extensive Introduction aims to give abroader view of Lambda as a whole and the problems it raises, and thus to provide the context for the discussion of each of the chapters. This volume will be a resource of great value and interest for anyone working on ancient metaphysics and theology.
Author | : Anthony Kenny |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780192830708 |
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Brings together in a systematic way Anthony Kenny's work in the philosopy of mind. It is intended as a sustained attack on a false view of the mind, the Cartesian view, and a demonstration that clarity is impossible without good metaphysics
Author | : Theodore Sider |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Metaphysics |
ISBN | : 019881156X |
Download The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Metaphysics has shifted ground, moving away from necessity and possibility as the lens through which we look at things. Ted Sider shapes the agenda for the subject by exploring how this shift transforms the project of understanding the objects, properties, and quantities of the universe, and the relations between them, in terms of structures.
Author | : W.L. Craig |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401735328 |
Download Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The larger project of which this volume forms part is an attempt to craft a coherent doctrine of divine eternity and God's relationship to time. Central to this project is the integration of the concerns of theology with the concept of time in relativity theory. This volume provides an accessible and philosophically informed examination of the concept of time in relativity, the ultimate aim being the achievement of a tenable theological synthesis.
Author | : Tim Maudlin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2007-04-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199218218 |
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What does physics tell us about metaphysics? Tim Maudlin's philosophical examination of the fundamental structure of the world as presented by physics challenges the most widely accepted philosophical accounts of laws of nature, universals, the direction of time and causation.
Author | : Douglas Owain Edwards |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198758693 |
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What is truth? What role does truth play in the connections between language and the world? What is the relationship between truth and being? The Metaphysics of Truth tackles these fundamental philosophical questions and develops a distinctive metaphysical worldview. Moreover, it does so in a climate where the traditionally central issue of the nature of truth has diminished in significance due to the rise of deflationary and primitivist views, which deny that there are interesting and informative things to say about truth. Douglas Edwards responds to these views, and demonstrates the importance of the metaphysics of truth with regard to both the study of truth itself, and metaphysical debates more generally. He also develops a detailed pluralist metaphysical approach, which starts with the diversity of different subject areas, and holds that there are different relationships between language and the world in different areas, or 'domains'. He develops a pluralist approach which explains what domains are; how different domains are individuated; which metaphysical frameworks apply in different domains; and how truth plays a key role in the picture. The picture is extended to incorporate ontological pluralism - the idea that there are different ways of being - which increases the explanatory power of the view. Edwards gives particular attention to important domains which have not yet received a great deal of attention in debates about truth, namely the institutional and social domains, and thus connects work on the metaphysics of truth and being to key issues in social construction.