Substance, Form, and Psyche
An Aristotelean Metaphysics

This book is a re-thinking of Aristotle's metaphysical theory of material substances.

Montgomery Furth (Author)

9780521035613, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 March 2007

316 pages
22.7 x 15.1 x 1.7 cm, 0.48 kg

This book is a re-thinking of Aristotle's metaphysical theory of material substances. The view of the author is that the 'substances' are the living things, the organisms: chiefly, the animals. There are three main parts to the book: Part I, a treatment of the concepts of substance and nonsubstance in Aristotle's Categories; Part III, which discusses some important features of biological objects as Aristotelian substances, as analysed in Aristotle's biological treatises and the de Anima; and Part V, which attempts to relate the conception of substance as interpreted so far to that of the Metaphysics itself. The main aim of the study is to recreate in modern imagination a vivid, intuitive understanding of Aristotle's concept of material substance: a certain distinctive concept of what an individual material object is.

Preface
Part I. Cross and Intra-Categorical Prediction in the Categories
Part II. Substance in the Metaphysics: A First Approximation
Part III. The Zoological Universe
Part IV. Bio-Metaphysics
Part V. Metaphysics
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]