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UNINA9910785346103321 |
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Kirby Jeremy |
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Aristotle's metaphysics : form, matter, and identity / Jeremy Kirby |
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London ; New York, : Continuum, 2008 |
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9781847062466 |
1-4725-9789-3 |
1-282-87461-6 |
9786612874611 |
1-4411-4454-4 |
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1 online resource (172 p.) |
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Continuum studies in ancient philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-155) and index |
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Introduction -- i. The Metaphysics of Aristotle -- ii. Two Challenges to Change -- iii. Matter, Form, and Paradox -- 1. Matters of Individuation -- i. Matters of Change -- ii. Matters of Difference -- iii. Identity, Diversity, and Unity -- iv. Aristotle and the Absolutist versus Relativist Controversy -- v. The Bare Materials -- vi. Prime Matter, Somatic Matter, and Individuation -- vii. The Varieties of Matter -- viii. Two Old Arguments against Migration -- ix. A Possible Objection -- x. Conclusion -- 2. Resurrection and Entrapment -- i. A Putative Response to the Puzzle of Simple Composition ii. Anastasis and Anachronism -- iii. Scientific and Dialectical Contexts -- iv. Possibility and Inevitability -- v. Eternal Recurrence Limited -- vi. Eternality and Essentialism -- vii. Resurrection, Migration, and Gappy Existences -- viii. Resurrection and the Problem of Shared Identity -- ix. Aristotle's Rejection of Migration -- x. Conclusion -- 4. Aristotle on Composition and the Puzzle of Unity -- i. Composition -- ii. The Puzzle of Unity -- iii. The Popular Strategy -- iv. Eliminativism -- v. The Identity Thesis -- vi. Constituency as Adjectival Being -- vii. Toward a Relational Unity -- viii. Teleological Dependence as the Adhesive for Unity -- ix. Conclusion -- 5. Particularities and the Puzzle of Composition -- i. Haecceities -- ii. The Problem of Universals -- iii. The Zeta Problem -- |
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iv. No Substance is a Universal -- v. Conclusion -- 5. Conclusion -- i. The Puzzle of Simple Composition Revisited -- ii. Alternative Proposals for Resolving the Puzzle of Simple Composition -- iii. The Puzzle of Transplantation -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- |
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Aristotle maintains that biological organisms are compounds of matter and form and that compounds that have the same form are individuated by their matter. According to Aristotle, an object that undergoes change is an object that undergoes a change in form, i.e. form is imposed upon something material in nature. Aristotle therefore identifies organisms according to their matter and essential forms, forms that are arguably essential to an object's existence. Jeremy Kirby addresses a difficulty in Aristotle's metaphysics, namely the possibility that two organisms of the same species might share the same matter. If they share the same form, as Aristotle seems to suggest, then they seem to share that which they cannot, their identity. By taking into account Aristotle's views on the soul, its relation to living matter, and his rejection of the possibility of resurrection, Kirby reconstructs an answer to this problem and shows how Aristotle relies on some of the central themes in his system in order to resist this unwelcome result that his metaphysics might suggest. |
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UNINA9910816267103321 |
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O'Neill Timothy Michael |
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Ideography and Chinese language theory : a history / / Timothy Michael O'Neill |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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3-11-045722-9 |
3-11-045923-X |
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1 online resource (356 p.) |
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Welten Ostasiens, , 1660-9131 ; ; Band 26 = Worlds of East Asia Mondes de l'Extrême-Orient |
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Chinese characters - History |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Egyptian Hieroglyphic and Chinese Characters -- Chapter One: Platonism and the Strong Theory -- Chapter Two: Aristotelianism and Soft Theory -- Chapter Three: Hellenized Egypt, Pythagoreanism, and the Primitivist Theory -- Chapter Four: Patristic Apologetics and the Scriptural Theory -- Chapter Five: Neoplatonism and the Hermetic Theory -- Chapter Six: Universals and the Scholastic Theory -- Chapter Seven: Renaissance Neoplatonism and the Emblematic Theory -- Chapter Eight: Athanasius Kircher on Egyptian and Chinese Ideography -- Chapter Nine: The Great Chinese Encyclopedia -- Chapter Ten: Zhengming 正名“Making Words Correct” and Chinese Language Theory -- Chapter Eleven: Chinese Language Theory and the Interpretation of the Classics -- Chapter Twelve: The Erya and Lexicographic Classification -- Chapter Thirteen: The Erya and Chinese Language Theory -- Chapter Fourteen: The Shuowen jiezi and Chinese Language Theory -- Chapter Fifteen: The “Shuowen Postface” (Annotated Translation) -- Conclusion: Ideography and Chinese Language Theory -- Appendix: The Metalinguistic Terms Ming 名,Yi 義,Yi 意, and Zhi 志 -- Bibliography |
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This book is a much-needed scholarly intervention and postcolonial corrective that examines why and when and how misunderstandings of |
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Chinese writing came about and showcases the long history of Chinese theories of language. 'Ideography' as such assumes extra-linguistic, trans-historical, universal 'ideas' which are an outgrowth of Platonism and thus unique to European history. Classical Chinese discourse assumes that language (and writing) is an arbitrary artifact invented by sages for specific reasons at specific times in history. Language by this definition is an ever-changing technology amenable to historical manipulation; language is not the House of Being, but rather a historically embedded social construct that encodes "idian human intentions and nothing more. These are incommensurate epistemes, each with its own cultural milieu and historical context. By comparing these two traditions, this study historicizes and decolonializes popular notions about Chinese characters, exposing the Eurocentrism inherent in all theories of ideography. Ideography and Chinese Language Theory will be of significant interest to historians, sinologists, theorists, and scholars in other branches of the humanities. |
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