Aristotle on Nature and Incomplete Substance
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- Author: Sheldon M. Cohen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Date Published: January 2003
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- isbn: 9780521533133
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This book examines Aristotle's metaphysics and his account of nature, stressing the ways in which his desire to explain observed natural processes shaped his philosophical thought. It departs radically from a tradition of interpretation, in which Aristotle is understood to have approached problems with a set of abstract principles in hand, principles derived from critical reflection on the views of his predecessors. This is a major reevaluation of Aristotle's metaphysics that will interest philosophers, classicists, and historians of classical science.
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"This book includes interesting discussions of substance, nature, essence, living things, artifacts, parts and wholes, and prime matter, to name just a few topics. Anyone interested in Aristotle's metaphysics and natural philosophy should read it." Choice
See more reviews"Sheldon Cohen has written a remarkably concise and interesting book on a rather neglected topic within Aristotelian scholarship; namely, incomplete substances and their role in Aristotle's physics and metaphysics." John J. Cleary, Ancient Philosophy
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- Date Published: January 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521533133
- length: 204 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.31kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Nature and things
2. Elemental motion and alteration
3. Elemental transformation and the persistence of matter
4. Unity
5. Living things.
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