The Structure of Being in Aristotles Metaphysics (Hardcover)

Jiyuan Yu

ISBN 10: 1402015372 / ISBN 13: 9781402015373

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, NY, 2003

Hardcover. This text develops an interpretation of Aristotle's "Metaphysics". By exploring the significance of the long ignored distinction between being with regard to categories and being with regard to potentiality and actuality, the author presents Aristotle's science of being as having two distinct aspects: an investigation of the basic constituents of reality in terms of categories, predication, and definition, and an investigation which deals with change, process, and order of the world. The author argues that corresponding to the distinction between these two kinds of being, the central books of the Metaphysics contain not one, but two theories of substance, depending on whether the matter/form relation is associated with the potentiality/actuality relation. Together, these two studies of being and substance provide a complete picture of the Aristotle's world as both a static and a dynamic reality. In his Metaphysics, Aristotle claims that he is seeking to establish a science of being. Per se being Per se (kath hauto) being can also be translated as "being in its own right" or "intrinsic being". Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781402015373

Synopsis:

In his Metaphysics, Aristotle claims that he is seeking to establish a science of being. Being, at the most general level, is divided by Aristotle into the following four types: 1. Accidental being 2. Being as truth 3. Potential/actual being l 4. Per se being Per se (kath hauto) being can also be translated as "being in its own right" or "intrinsic being". This type of being has been referred to by Aristotle in different ways. The list of per se beings includes substance, quantity, quality, place, time, etc. , and this is also the list ofcategories. At Meta. ix. l, 1045b28 Aristotle calls this list the "categories of being" (hai kategoriai tou ontos). At Meta. vi. 2, 1026a36 and ix. 1O, 1051a33-b2 per se being is called "being with reference to the figures ofpredication" (ta schemata tes kategorias, or "figures ofcategories,,). 2 Of these four types of being, accidental being is briefly treated in Meta. vi. 2-3 and there Aristotle claims that the study of accidental being can be dismissed on the grounds that accidental being is indeterminate and cannot be 3 the object ofknowledge. He also does not pay much attention to being as truth and treats it briefly in two short texts: Meta. viA and ix. 1O.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Structure of Being in Aristotles ...
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, NY
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new