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Aristotle's two systems /
Each of the two major approaches to Aristotle--the unitarian, which understands his work as forming a single, unified system, and the developmentalist, which seeks a sequence of developing ideas--has inherent limitations. This book proposes a synthetic view of Aristotle that sees development as a ch...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Sprog: | English |
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1987.
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| Online adgang: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0639/87007764-d.html |
| Summary: | Each of the two major approaches to Aristotle--the unitarian, which understands his work as forming a single, unified system, and the developmentalist, which seeks a sequence of developing ideas--has inherent limitations. This book proposes a synthetic view of Aristotle that sees development as a change between systematic theories. Setting theories of the so-called logical works beside theories of the physical and metaphysical treatises, Graham shows that Aristotle's doctrines fall into two distinct systems of philosophies that are genetically related. This study--the first major alternative to the unitarian approach since Jaeger pioneered the developmentalist method in 1923--provides a sweeping reappraisal of Aristotle's science and metaphysics and a new approach to the problem of substance presented in the Metaphysics. |
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| Emne beskrivelse: | Includes indexes. |
| Fysisk beskrivelse: | xiii, 359 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliografi: | Bibliography: p. [333]-346. |
| ISBN: | 0198249705 |