The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics: A Study in the Greek Background of Mediaeval ThoughtThe problem of being is central to Western metaphysics. Etched sharply in the verses of Parmenides, it took on distinctive colouring in Aristotle as the subject matter of a science expressly labelled 'theological.' For Aristotle, being could not be shared in generic fashion by other natures. As a nature it had to be found not in various species but in a primary instance only. The science specified by the primary nature was accordingly the one science that under the aspect of being treated universally of whatever is: it dealt with being qua being. |
Contents
The Problem of Being in the Metaphysics | 1 |
The Nature and Composition of the Metaphysics | 69 |
The English Translation of Aristotelian Terms | 137 |
The Science of the Four Causes Book A | 157 |
The Aporematic Treatment of the Causes | 211 |
The Science of Being qua Being Books lE | 259 |
PART THREE Sensible Entity as the Way to Separate Entity | 288 |
Introduction The Expressions of Being E 24 | 307 |
Form and Universal Z 1316 | 367 |
The Form as Cause Z 17 | 375 |
Being as Act 19 | 403 |
Being as Truth 10 | 411 |
The First Principles Book | 421 |
The Aristotelian Separate Entities N | 435 |
Separate Entity and Being Conclusion | 455 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 475 |
The Expressions of Entity Z 13 | 315 |
Entity as Substrate ZH | 329 |
Entity as Form Z 412 | 347 |
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