Aristotle's Two Systems

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (1987)
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In this study, Daniel W. Graham addresses two major problems in interpreting Aristotle. First, should we reconcile the apparent inconsistencies of the corpus by assuming an underlying unity of doctrine, or by positing a sequence of developing ideas? Secondly,what is the relation between the so-called logical works on the one hand and the physical-metaphysical treatises on the other? Although the problems appear to be unrelated, Graham finds that the key to the first lies in the second, and in doing so provides the first major alternative to theunitarian approach since Jaeger's pioneering developmental study of 1923.

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B485.G584 1987

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9780198243151   9780191680649   0198243154   0198249705   9780198249702

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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198243151.001.0001
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S1: Atomic Substantialism

S1 is the doctrine of the Organon plus the Rhetoric and S2 are the remaining treatises of Aristotle. This chapter argues that S1 embodies a philosophical system. It also outlines the ontology, logic, and philosophy of science of S1 to which emerges a system of interrelated explanatory sche... see more

S2: Hylomorphic Substantialism

This chapter argues that current accounts of Aristotle often present S2 theory contaminated by doctrines imported from S1. It examines the ontology, theory of logic and language, and philosophy of science of S2. The feature that seems to be most distinctive of this ontology as contrasted w... see more

The Growth of S2: Potentiality and Actuality

This chapter presents theories that were peripheral to S1 and states that they were transformed under the pressure of new principles to become key components of a new system. Since the important stages in the development of Aristotle's two theories correlates with the changeover to S2, thi... see more

The Paradoxes of Substance: Matter

This chapter tries to answer the question how did Aristotle see the relation between S1 and S2, and argues that he did not abandon S1. An interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics vii in this chapter purports not to find the real solution to the problem of substance but to show that there ... see more

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