Research Catalog

Title

Being, essence, and substance in Plato and Aristotle / Paul Ricoeur ; text verified and annotated by Jean-Louis Schlegel ; translated by David Pellauer and John Starkey.

Author

Ricœur, Paul

Publication

Cambridge : Polity, [2013].

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schlegel, Jean-Louis
• Pellauer, David
• Starkey, John

Description

xi, 266 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This book comprises the lectures that Paul Ricoeur gave on Plato and Aristotle at the University of Strasbourg in 1953-54. The aim of these lectures is to analyse the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle and to discern in their work the ontological foundations of Western philosophy.--

Uniform Title

Etre, essence et substance chez platon et Aristote. English

Alternative Title

Etre, essence et substance chez platon et Aristote.

Subjects

• Aristotle
• Plato
• Metaphysics

Note

• "Course taught at the University of Strasbourg in 1953-1954"--Title page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

I. Plato -- Part I. "True being" or the idea -- 1. The meaning of Platonic "eidos" -- 2. Essence and language -- 3. Science and essence: "opinion" as the negative of science -- 4. Science and essence: right opinion as "intermediary" -- 5. Science and essence: the mathematical "intermediary" -- 6. Science and essence: the "terminus" of science: contemplation -- Part II. The idea of being and non-being -- 7. The question of being in 'Parmenides' -- 8. The success and failures of Platonism in the 'Sophist' -- 9. The genesis of the sensible in the 'Timaeus' -- Part III. Being and the "divine" -- 10. The problem of the "divine" and presocratic philosophy -- 11. The "divine" in Plato -- II. Aristotle -- Part I. Being as being -- 12. The "genetic" interpretation of Aristotle's 'Metaphysics' -- 13. Philosophy: its intention and its memory -- 14. Philosophy and its "aporias" -- 15. The object of "first philosophy" -- Part II. Being and substance -- 16. Sensible substance: substance as substrate -- 17. Sensible substance: substance as form -- 18. Substance and the individual -- 19. "Separate" substance.

Call Number

JFE 13-8364

ISBN

• 9780745660547 (hbk.)
• 0745660541 (hbk.)
• 9780745660554 (pbk.)
• 074566055X (pbk.)

OCLC

859315920

Author

Ricœur, Paul, author.

Title

Being, essence, and substance in Plato and Aristotle / Paul Ricoeur ; text verified and annotated by Jean-Louis Schlegel ; translated by David Pellauer and John Starkey.

Publisher

Cambridge : Polity, [2013].

Edition

English edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Schlegel, Jean-Louis, editor.

Pellauer, David, translator.

Starkey, John, translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-8364