The discovery of things : Aristotle's Categories and their context /

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Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naïve, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a revolutionary metaphysical picture, one Aristotle arrives at by (implicitly) criticizing Plato and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mann, Wolfgang-Rainer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.
Temas:
Aristotle. > Categoriae.
Aristotele. Categorie.
Categoriae (Aristotle)
Categories (Philosophy) > History.
Catégories (Philosophie) > Histoire.
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Categories (Philosophy)
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Citations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Project
  • 2. The Problem
  • 3. The Task of Part I: The Problem of Categories 1 and 2
  • 4. The Task of Part II: Plato's Metaphysics and the Status of Things
  • 5. The Task of Part III: The Categories Once More-The Role of the '-onymies'
  • 6. Final Methodological Preliminaries
  • Part I. Setting the Stage: The ""Antepraedicamenta"" and the ""Praedicamenta
  • 1. Preliminary Remarks: The Role of the First Two Chapters of the Treatise
  • 2. The Definition of the '-onymies'
  • 3. The Four Kinds of Eponymy
  • 4. The Distinctions of Chapters 2 and 3
  • Appendix 1: Difficulties with the Received Text and a Role for Chapter 4
  • Appendix 2: Speusippus, the Speusippean '-onymies', and Topics 1, 15
  • Part II. Plato's Metaphysics and the Status of Things
  • 1. Preliminary Remarks
  • 2. Forms and Participants in Plato's Middle Dialogues
  • 3. The Problem of Becoming
  • 4. Three Difficulties for the Proposed Account of Becoming
  • 5. Plato's Introduction of the Distinction between Being and Becoming
  • 6. The Background to Plato's Special Use of 'Becoming'
  • 7. The Participants: Plato and Anaxagoreanism
  • 8. Self-Predication
  • 9. The Being of the Participants: Preliminaries
  • 10. The First Objection: Does Plato Distinguish between Essential and Accidental Properties?
  • 11. The Second Objection: The Extent of Forms (and a Methodological Digression)
  • 12. The Second Objection Continued: Forms and 'Incompleteness'
  • 13. A Third Objection: Can Forms Be 'Ingredients'?
  • 14. The Participants: Being and Becoming
  • 15. The Late-Learners: Real Being for Ordinary Things
  • 16. Does Plato Modify His Picture in Some Late Dialogues?
  • Part III. The Categories Picture once More: an Alternative to Platonism And Late-Learnerism
  • 1. Aristotle's Introduction of Paronymy
  • 2. Some Difficulties
  • 3. The ""Antepraedicamenta"" as an Introduction to the ""Praedicamenta"": The Project of the Categories Reconsidered
  • Epilogue
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Rerum

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