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Aristotle's Two Systems

By Daniel W. Graham

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
1987
ISBN
0198244622, 0198247974, 0198249705, 7801982497
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20406376 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
359\392
Time added
2024-08-01 14:03:05

Description

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.

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