The Odyssey of Eidos (eBook)

Reflections on Aristotle’s Response to Plato

Mark J. Nyvlt (Herausgeber)

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2023
186 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-6667-4835-2 (ISBN)

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Aristotle sets the horizons of our inquiry: What is it when we say we know something? And is the object of knowledge a universal or particular [tode ti] object? Aristotle's critique of Plato's theory of form/Forms in light of his notion of actuality has generated a variety of topics that frame our inquiry: "Understanding Eidos as Form in the Works of Aristotle as Plato's Critical Student"; "Aristotle on Plato's Forms as Causes"; "Notes on the Relationship between Plato's Parmenides and Aristotle's Metaphysics Alpha"; "'Separate' and 'Inactive'? Aristotle's Most Challenging Critique of Plato's 'Forms'"; "Too Much Unity in a City Is Destructive of the City: Aristotle against Plato's Unification Project of the Polis"; "Aristotle on the Soul as Actuality"; "Delphic Piety in the De Anima of Alexander of Aphrodisias"; "Aristotle and Plotinus: Act and Potency and the Two Acts"; and "Al-Fārābīon Habit and Imagination." Here, the Peripatetic readings of form and actuality are parsed from the precipice of historical, analytic, and continental approaches to the mind/language/object problem, with advocacy of the importance of Aristotle's contribution to this inquiry for the present age.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.2.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Foro di Studi Avanzati
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Schlagworte: Actuality • Al-F • Ancient Philosophy • Aristotle • aristotle metaphysics • Eidos • forms • Metaphysics • Plato • Soul • Substance (Philosophy)
• ISBN-10: 1-6667-4835-8 / 1666748358
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6667-4835-2 / 9781666748352