Aristotle's gradations of being in Metaphysics E-Z / Joseph Owens ; edited with a preface by Lloyd P. Gerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owens, Joseph, 1908-2005

Contributor:

Gerson, Lloyd P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Owens, Joseph, 1908-2005. Doctrine of being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics.

Owens, Joseph.

Aristotle. Metaphysics.

Aristotle.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Metaphysics.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

xlvii, 186 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

South Bend, Ind. : St. Augustine's Press, 2007.

Summary:

Aristotle's Gradations of Being was edited from the papers of the late Joseph Owens. Some fifty years after his groundbreaking book, The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics, Owens turned again to consider the central themes in Aristotle's conception of a science of being or "first philosophy." Reflecting on a half-century of scholarship, and drawing on his own extensive publications in Greek and medieval philosophy, Owens sets forth in a step-by-step meticulous argument his own interpretation of Aristotle's account of substance, essence, and the gradations of being. Owens writes extensively of the different but complementary approaches of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.

He discusses the many facets of the Aristotelian notion of "form," including its role in a realistic epistemology. This monograph, edited by Owens's colleague and former pupil, Lloyd P. Gerson, includes a complete bibliography of Owens's writings as well as works critical of Owens's readings of ancient and medieval philosophers. It will serves as an excellent introduction to one of the most influential interpretations of the Aristotelian metaphysical tradition of the past century.

Contents:

(Book Epsilon): Macroscopic overview

E 1 (English translation)

The role of book epsilon in the Metaphysics

Pure actuality and primacy in being

Aristotelian sciences and their starting points (E 1.1025b3-1026a23)

The universality of being qua being

(Book Zeta): Microscopic investigation

Z I (English translation)

The meanings of ousia

Essential being (to ti en einai)

"Essential being" and singular thing

"Essential being" and form

Form and universal

Form and cause of being.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Joseph Owens: a bibliography": pages [ix]-xlvii.

ISBN:

1587310287

9781587310287

OCLC:

58386464