Research Catalog

Title

Being, essence and substance in Plato and Aristotle / by Paul Ricoeur.

Author

Ricœur, Paul

Publication

Cambridge : Polity, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Schlegel, Jean-Louis
• Schlegel, Jean-Louis,
• Pellauer, David
• Starkey, John (Translator)

Description

xi, [1], 266 pages; 22 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.--

Subject

• Plato
• Aristotle
• Metaphysics
• Ontology > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Plato. -- Part I. "True being" or the idea. The meaning of Platonic "eidos" -- Essence and language -- Science and essence : "opinion" as the negative of science -- Science and essence : right opinion as "intermediary" -- Science and essence : the mathematical "intermediary" -- Science and essence (conclusion) : the "terminus" of science : contemplation -- Part II. The idea of being and non-being. The question of being in Parmenides -- The success and failures of Platonism in the Sophist -- The genesis of the sensible in the Timaeus -- Part III. Being and the "divine". The problem of the "divine" and presocratic philosophy -- The "divine" in Plato -- II. Aristotle. -- Part I. Being as being. The "genetic" interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics -- Philosophy : its intention and its memory -- Philosophy and its "aporias" -- The object of "first philosophy" -- Part II. Being and substance. Sensible substance : substance as substrate -- Sensible substance (continued) : substance as form -- Substance and the individual -- "Separate" substance.

ISBN

• 9780745660554 (pbk.)
• 074566055X (pbk.)

OCLC

829055762

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library