Aristotle's two systems / Daniel W. Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Daniel W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

xiii, 359 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Summary:

Each of the two major approaches to Aristotle--the unitarian, which understands his work as forming a single, unified system, and the developmentalist, which seeks a sequence of developing ideas--has inherent limitations. This book proposes a synthetic view of Aristotle that sees development as a change between systematic theories. Setting theories of the so-called logical works beside theories of the physical and metaphysical treatises, Graham shows that Aristotle's doctrines fall into two distinct systems of philosophies that are genetically related. This study--the first major alternative to the unitarian approach since Jaeger pioneered the developmentalist method in 1923--provides a sweeping reappraisal of Aristotle's science and metaphysics and a new approach to the problem of substance presented in the Metaphysics.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [333]-346.

ISBN:

0198249705 :

OCLC:

15488246