Research Catalog

Title

The architectonic of philosophy : Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz / Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh.

Author

Kavanaugh, Leslie Jaye.

Publication

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

vii, 335 p. : some ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Whereas the history of philosophy defines metaphysics as asking the question 'What is Being?'; here is asked 'Where is Being?' What is to be analyzed is indeed part of the tradition of metaphysics to inquire about Being qua being, but here the inquiry is into its structure, its position within the ontological whole. The concept of the 'architectonic' is borrowed from Kant ... In this work, three philosophical structures are chosen for a more extensive examination: the three 'architectonics' are that of Plato's Chora, Aristoteles' continuum, and finally Leibniz's labyrinth"--Back cover.

Subject

• Plato
• Aristotle
• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
• Plato, 428-348 v.Chr
• Aristoteles, 384-322 v. Chr
• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1646-1716
• Metaphysics
• Ontology
• Architecture > Philosophy
• Ontologie (filosofie)
• Structuur

Genre/Form

Proefschriften (vorm)

Note

• The author's doctoral dissertation (proefschrift) presented to Universiteit van Amsterdam in 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-321) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: The Architectonic -- On Method: Onto-topology -- Ontological Structures: The Architectonic -- The Transcendental Structure of Kant's Architectonic -- The Lay of the Land -- Ch. 1: The Architectonic as Arché -- To Begin -- The Timaeus -- The Dialogue about the Genesis -- Plato's Timaeus: the Third Term -- The Arché is to Ask the Question about the Beginning, the Origin. -- Arché as the First Cause -- Time at the Beginning -- The Correspondence between the World-Soul and the Human Soul -- The Arché is Beginning Again ... the Origin -- A Threefold Schema: Arché -- Archetype -- Type -- The Arché as Chora -- Again ... the Ideal-Sensible Distinction -- Arché as Space -- In the End as in the Beginning -- Ch. 2: The Architectonic as Continuum -- Aristotle's Predecessors -- The Problem of Flux in the Continuum -- The Fullness of Being -- The Atomist's Defense of the Parmendean One --^
• Aristotle's Critique of Parmenides -- Aristotle's Account of Change in the Continuum -- Zeno's Paradoxes on the Impossibility of Motion -- Zeno and Aristotle's Categories -- Aristotle's Critique of Atomism -- Euclid's Elements -- Points and Units -- Aristotle and the Continuum -- Place -- Infinitely ... To Apeiron -- The Continuum is One -- From Aristotle to the Seventeenth Century (a little jump) -- Ch. 3: The Architectonic as Labyrinth -- The Labyrinth -- Phenomenal and Metaphysical Atomism -- The Leibnizian Theory of Monadic Substance -- The Interconnectivity of Monadic Substances -- The Unity of Monadic Points-of-View -- Universal Harmony -- The Intussusception or Unity of the Material and Substantial -- Unity of Monadic Substance from Correspondence with de Volder -- The Organon/ Objectum Distinction -- Specimen Dynamicum: Phenomenal Flux -- Correspondence with Des Bosses: The Problem of Cohesion -- Pacidius to Philalethes: A First Philosophy of Motion -- Moving On --^
• Small Things: Atoms and Points -- The Fold -- The Principle of Unity and Multiplicity -- Space/Time Relations -- Correspondence with Clarke: Relational vs Absolute Space and -- Real Relations -- The Reasonable Place for Things -- Leibnizian Onto- topology -- Ch. 4: The Architectonic as Reticulum -- The Three -- Fluvial Interpretations: The Problem of Point-of-View -- Constructing the Reticulum -- The Necessary Components of the Reticulum -- In the Beginning ... to End -- To Begin Again -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9056294164 (pbk)
• 9789056294168

OCLC

• 150245245
• SCSB-11138597

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library