Aristotle on Ontological Priority in the Categories
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- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2020
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- English
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- 84
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- Elements in Ancient Philosophy
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β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Aristotle on Ontological Priority in the Categories
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 What Is Ontological Priority?
1.2 Aristotleβs Account of Ontological Priority
1.3 Aristotleβs Use of βEinaiβ (Being)
1.4 Aristotle, Plato, and the Academy on Ontological Priority
1.4.1 Metaphysics V 11 and Eudemian Ethics I 8
1.4.2 Ontological Priority among Genus and Species: A Controversy between Aristotle and Xenocrates
1.4.3 Divisiones Aristotelis
1.4.4 The Academy and Aristotle
1.5 Section Overview
2 Ontological Priority in Aristotle's Categories 12 and 13
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Priority of the Genus over the Species in Categories 13
2.3 Priority of the Number One over the Number Two in Categories 12
2.4 Priority in Nature and Truth-Making
2.5 Conclusion
3 Ontological Priority and Simultaneity among Relatives in Aristotle's Categories 7
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Aristotle on Relatives
3.3 Simultaneity in Nature among Relatives in Categories 7 and 13
3.3.1 Simultaneity in Time
3.3.2 Ontological Dependence: Symmetric Implication
3.3.3 Ontological Dependence: Symmetric Destruction
3.3.4 Interim Conclusion
3.3.5 A Further Condition on Simultaneity: No Causal Connection
3.4 Priority in Nature among Relatives in Categories 7 and 12
3.4.1 I. Case Study in Categories 7: Knowledge and Its Object
3.4.2 II. Case Study in Categories 7: Perception and Its Object
3.5 Conclusion
4 The Primacy of Primary Substances in Aristotle's Categories
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Categories 5, 2b3β6
4.3 A Problem for Both Interpretations: The Secondary Substances
4.4 Primacy as Asymmetric Existential Dependence?
4.5 Primacy as Asymmetric Essential Dependence?
4.6 Interpreting Categories 5, 2b3β6 in Its Context
4.7 The Primacy of Primary Substances
4.8 Conclusion
5 Conclusion
References
Acknowledgements
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
The Philosophical Review, Vol. 13, No. 5 (Sep., 1904), pp. 514-528<div class="bb-sep"></div>Author shows that treatise of the Categories is closely related to that of the Topics, and also that it was written before the latter and serves as a basis for it upon which it <br/>builds, very often going b
Cleary discusses the origin, development, and use of the many senses of priority as a central thesis in Aristotleβs metaphysics.Cleary contends that one of the most revealing problems for the ambiguity of Aristotleβs relationship to Platonism is that of the ontological status of mathematical objects
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