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The Foundations of Aristotle's Categorial Scheme
Author(s): Paul Studtmann (Author)
- Publisher: Marquette Univ Pr
- Publication Date: January 1, 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 175 pages
- ISBN-10: 0874627613
- ISBN-13: 9780874627619
Book Description
Aristotle’s Categories had an unparalleled influence on the history of metaphysical speculation. Despite its influence, however, two fundamental questions remain to this day unanswered: (1) how did Aristotle generate his list of categories? and (2) what is the relationship between Aristotle’s categories and his other great metaphysical system: hylomorphism? In this book, Paul Studtmann develops and defends an interpretation that offers a unified and striking answer to both questions: Aristotle’s system of categories is systematically derivable from hylomorphism, which in turn is derivable from general theses about the nature of being.
