Aristotle on Substance : : The Paradox of Unity / / Mary Louise Gill.
This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary substances? Mary Louise Gill bases her treatment...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Matter and Subjecthood
- 2. The Elements
- 3. Generation
- 4. Matter and Definition
- 5. The Unity of Composite Substances
- 6. The Cause of Becoming
- 7. The Cause of Persistence
- APPENDIX
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX LOCORUM
- GENERAL INDEX