One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics : The Central Books

by: Halper, E.C.

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One and many in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Central books
Author:Edward C. Halper

Summary: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. "The Central Books of the Metaphysics" are widely recognised as the most difficult portion of a most difficult work. This title aims to examine the "Central Books".

Contents:
Ch. 1. Book E: What is Being?
The Central Books
The Theoretical Sciences: E 1
Accidental Being E 2-3
E 2: Knowledge of Accidents
E 3: Causes of Accidents
Ch. 2. Categorical Being: Z-H
Z 1: The Primacy of Ousia
One and This
Z 2-3, 1028b36: Instances of Ousia
Z 3: The Substrafe
1029b3-12
Z 4-5: Essence
Accidents and Accidental Composites
The Opening Lines of Z 4: 1029b13-22
Z 5: Coupled Things
Addition and Essence
Secondary Essences
Addition, Subtraction, and Ousia
Z 6: The Identity of Thing and Essence
1031a19-28: What is Said Accidentally
1031a28-1032a11: What is Said Per Se
Z 7-9: The Physical Treatment of Essence
Some Objections
Z 10-11: The Parts of Ousia
Z 10
Z 11
Wholes, Parts, and Unity
One and Subtraction
Z 12: The Unity of Form
Z 13-16: The Universal
Z 13, 1038b9-16: Arguments 1 and 2
Z 13, 1038b16-1039a23: Arguments 3-6
Argument Three: 1038b16-23
Argument Four: 1038b23-29
Argument Five: 1038b29-30
Argument Six: 1039a3-8
Z 14
Z 15
Z 16, 1040b5-16
Z 16, 1040b16-1041a5
Species and Genus
Z 17: Ousia as Cause
Book H 1-5: The Composite
H 1
1042a32-b8: Matter
H 2: Actuality and Accidental Composites
Differentiae: 1042b11-31
Composites: 1042b31-1043a28
H 3: Definitions of Accidental Composites
H 4-5: Proper Matter
H 6: The Unity of the Composite
1045a7-33: Problem and Solution
1045a33-b17: Form without Matter
1045b17-23: Justification and Interpretation of the Solution
Z-H: One and Categorial Being
Ch. 3. Book O: Actuality and Truth
O 1-5: Potentiality
O 1: The Potencies of Doing and Suffering
O 2: Rational and Nonrational Potencies
O 3-4: Potentiality and Actuality
O 5: Natural and Nonnatural Potencies
O 6-9: Actuality
E 4, O 10: Truth
Ch. 4. Being, One and Ousia in the Central Books
Convergence
Form, Universal, and Individual
Universal Form
Individual Form
Form as neither Universal nor Individual
Universal and Individual
The Central Books and the Aporiai
The Nature of Ousia

Originally published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1989. With new preface

xlvii, 309 pages ; 24 cm

One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics : The Central Books

by: Halper, E.C.

• ISBN-13: 9781930972056 / 978-1-930972-05-6
• ISBN-03: 1930972059 / 1-930972-05-9
• Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2005

Price: 47,00 EURO

1 copy in stock