The structure of being in Aristotle's Metaphysics /

This book develops a new 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 that Aristotle's science of being has two disti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yu, Jiyuan (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media, [2003]
Series:New synthese historical library ; v. 52.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Per se being and potential/actual being
  • From being to substance
  • Hylomorphism and its two approaches
  • Subject, form, and essence
  • Form : Tode ti and toionde
  • Substantial potentially and actuality
  • Actuality and the prime mover
  • The unity Aristotle's Metaphysics.