Giobbe / traduzione e commento di Arthur Weiser ; trad. it. di Giovanni Casanova ; ed. it. di Felice Montagnini

• Record Nr.: UNINA990005403350403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Brescia : Paideia, 1975
• Descrizione fisica: 412 p. ; 21 cm
• Disciplina: 221
• Locazione: FLFBC
• Collocazione: 221 ANT 1 (5)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Aristotle's theory of substance [[electronic resource] ] : the Categories and Metaphysics Zeta / / Michael V. Wedin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456129903321
• Autore: Wedin Michael V (Michael Vernon), <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0-19-159864-X; 9786611989033; 0-19-151945-6; 1-281-98903-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (497 p.)
• Collana: Oxford Aristotle studies
• Disciplina: 111/.1/092
• Soggetti: Substance (Philosophy); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""I. The Plan of the Categories""; ""1. Aristotle's Three Onymies""; ""2. Some Suggestions on the Role of the ; Onymies""; ""3. The Onymies as Grouping Principles""; ""4. Two Ways to Get the List of Categories""; ""5. A Pair of Problems""; ""II. Nonsubstantial Individuals""; ""1. The Standard Version""; ""2. Owen's New Orthodoxy""; ""3. The New Improved Orthodoxy""; ""4. The Revised Standard Version""; ""5. Independent Evidence in the Categories""; ""6. The Testimony of Metaphysics Z.1""; ""7. The New Revised Standard Version""; ""III. Commitment and Configuration in the Categories""""1. The Meta-Ontology of the Categories as a Theory of Per Se Being""; ""2. Two-Step Dependence""; ""3. Asymmetry""; ""4. Asymmetry and the Nonsubstantial""; ""5. The Status of Nonsubstantial Universals""; ""6. The Status of Secondary Substances""; ""7. Inflation: Species as General Objects""; ""8. Elimination: Species as Linguistic Items""; ""9. Equivocation: Waffling on Existence""; ""10. A Strategy for Demotion: Existence Conditions""; ""11. Idealization in the Categories: A Transitional Remark""; ""IV. Tales of the Two Treatises""; ""1. An Argument for Outright Incompatibility""""2. The Alleged Failure of the Categories Account of a Subject""; ""3. On Two Philosophical Arguments for the Subjecthood of Form""; ""4. An 'Aristotelian' Argument for the Subjecthood of Form""; ""5. How Not to Smuggle Matter into the Categories""; ""V. The Structure and Substance of Substance""; ""1. The Categories Framework in Metaphysics Z.1""; ""2. Subjects and Substance in Z.3""; ""3. The Priority Argument""; ""4. The Reductio Argument""; ""5. The Auxiliary Argument""; ""VI. Form as Essence""; ""1. A Transitional Problem""; ""2. Some 'Logical' Remarks about Essence""""3. The New Primacy Passage""; ""4. The Elimination Argument""; ""5. The Notion of a [omitted]""; ""6. The New Primacy Argument""; ""7. Essence as the Form of a Genus [omitted]""; ""8. The [omitted] and Formal Differentiae""; ""9.Per Se[sub(2)] Compounds and Compound Properties""; ""VII. Zeta 6 on the Immediacy of Form""; ""1. Setting the Problem""; ""2. Formulating the Zeta 6 Thesis""; ""3. The Range of the Thesis""; ""4. Having versus Being an Essence""; ""5. The Problem of Regress""; ""6. Immediacy and Explanation""; ""7. A Worry about the Dilution of Substance""""VIII. The Purification of Form""; ""1. The Structure of Z.10 and 11""; ""2. The Correspondence Thesis""; ""3. Varieties of Parts and Wholes""; ""4. The Sophisticated Position""; ""5. Definability and Particular Compounds""; ""6. From Priority to Purity""; ""7. Z.11 on the Purification of Form""; ""8. Aristotle's Thought Experiment""; ""9. Socrates the Younger on the Soul of Man""; ""10. In Defense of PURITY""; ""11. A Transitional Remark""; ""IX. Generality and Compositionality: Z.13's Worries about Form""; ""1. Worries about Fit: Continuity versus Autonomy""
• Sommario/riassunto: Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. Two sources for these views are 'Categories' and the central books of 'Metaphysics'. This text argues that he is engaged in different projects in these books.