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Substance, Form, and Psyche: An Aristotelian Metaphysics

Substance, Form, and Psyche: An Aristotelian Metaphysics

From the publisher’s description:

This book is a re-thinking of Aristotle’s metaphysical theory of material substances. The view of the author is that the ‘substances’ are the living things, the organisms: chiefly, the animals. There are three main parts to the book: Part I, a treatment of the concepts of substance and nonsubstance in Aristotle’s Categories; Part III, which discusses some important features of biological objects as Aristotelian substances, as analysed in Aristotle’s biological treatises and the de Anima; and Part V, which attempts to relate the conception of substance as interpreted so far to that of the Metaphysics itself. The main aim of the study is to recreate in modern imagination a vivid, intuitive understanding of Aristotle’s concept of material substance: a certain distinctive concept of what an individual material object is.

Furth, Montgomery (NHC Fellow, 1986–87). Substance, Form, and Psyche: An Aristotelian Metaphysics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 9780521341431.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

1988

Asset Type

Images

Language

English

Subject Term

Metaphysics Materialism

Named Person

Aristotle