Aristotle on Substance
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A01=Mary Louise Gill
Adjective
Adverb
Ambiguity
American Philosophical Association
Analogy
Anaximander
Ancient philosophy
Aristotle
Author_Mary Louise Gill
Berkeley
Category=QDHA
Category=QDTJ
Circular definition
Circular reasoning
Classical element
Combustibility
Composite material
Concept
Dartmouth College
Differentia
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Existence
Explanation
First principle
Flour
Four causes
Functional specification
Generation of Animals
Humidity
Hypothesis
Ingredient
Instance (computer science)
Intrinsic and extrinsic properties
Introduction to Metaphysics (Bergson)
Materialism
Metaphor
Meteorology
Natural philosophy
On Generation and Corruption
On the Soul
Physical body
Physical change
Platonism
Posterior Analytics
Potentiality and actuality
Principle
Privation
Process philosophy
Proximate
Quantity
Raw material
Reason
Referent
Requirement
Self-actualization
Seminar
Simple living
Stanford University
Sublunary sphere
Substance theory
Substantial form
Subtraction
Suggestion
Symptom
Theory
Theory of change
Theory of Forms
Three Principles
Tim Maudlin
Treatise
University of California
Usage
Vinegar
W. D. Ross
Wine
Product details
- ISBN 9780691020709
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jul 1991
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 of the problem of unity, and of Aristotle's solution, on a fresh interpretation of the relation between matter and form. Challenging the traditional understanding of Aristotelian matter, she argues that material substances are subverted by matter and maintained by form that controls the matter to serve a positive end. The unity of material substances thus involves a dynamic relation between resistant materials and directive ends. Aristotle on Substance offers both a general account of matter, form, and substantial unity and a specific assessment of particular Aristotelian arguments. At every point, Gill engages Aristotle on his own philosophical ground through the detailed analysis of central, and often controversial, texts from the Metaphysics, Physics, On Generation and Corruption, De Anima, De Caelo, and the biological works.
The result is a coherent, firmly grounded rethinking of Aristotle's central metaphysical concepts and of his struggle toward a fully consistent theory of material substances.
