Facebook X YouTube Instagram TikTok NetGalley
Google Books previews are unavailable because you have chosen to turn off third party cookies for enhanced content. Visit our cookies page to review your cookie settings.

Form and Universal in Aristotle (Paperback)

Ancient History > Ancient Greece & the Hellenistic World > Greek Philosophy & Religion P&S History > Humanities > Philosophy > Ancient Philosophy

Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Pages: 89
ISBN: 9780905205052
Published: 1st December 2006
Casemate UK Academic

Please note this book may be printed for your order so despatch times may be slightly longer than usual.

in_stock

£15.00


You'll be £15.00 closer to your next £10.00 credit when you purchase Form and Universal in Aristotle. What's this?
+£4.99 UK Delivery or free UK delivery if order is over £40
(click here for international delivery rates)

Order within the next 3 hours, 9 minutes to get your order processed the next working day!

Need a currency converter? Check XE.com for live rates



It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Aristotle for a number of intellectual disciplines from Antiquity into the Middle Ages and beyond. However, Aristotle's philosophical ideas - both in themselves and as they were re-worked by later commentators - remain a subject of lively debate among contemporary philosophers and scholars. Form and Universal in Aristotle is a contribution to this controversy, offering the first full-length case against a conventional picture which presents Aristotle as holding an in re theory of universals. Chapters 1-3 argue that forms as such are not universals but particular and identical with particular things. Chapter 4 explains how Alexander of Aphrodisias filled some gaps in this theory and was followed by the Neoplatonic commentators. Excursuses at various points in the book suggest a bearing of this approach on other philosophical difficulties in Aristotle, such as the nature of thought, the extent of God's thought, and the functions of matter.

There are no reviews for this book. Register or Login now and you can be the first to post a review!

Other titles in Francis Cairns Publications...