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The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy
The problem of universals is one of the most fascinating and enduring topics in the history of metaphysics, with roots in ancient and medieval philosophy. The contributors to this book provide a critical, up-to-date and original overview of the contemporary debate on the problem of universals.
The Medieval Reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (2 Vol. Set)
Focusing on the medieval reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Volume One of this work offers an unprecedented and philosophically oriented study of medieval ontology against the background of the current metaphysical debate on the nature of material objects. Volume Two makes available to scholars one of the culminating points in the medieval reception of Aristotle’s metaphysical thought by presenting the first critical edition of Book VII of Paul of Venice’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics (1420-1424).”
A Companion to the Latin Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Few philosophical books have been so influential in the development of Western thought as Aristotle’s Metaphysics. For centuries Aristotle’s most celebrated work has been regarded as a source of inspiration as well as the starting point for every investigation into the structure of reality. Not surprisingly, the topics discussed in the book – the scientific status of ontology and metaphysics, the foundations of logical truths, the notions of essence and existence, the nature of material objects and their properties, the status of mathematical entities, just to mention some – are still at the centre of the current philosophical debate and are likely to excite philosophical minds for m...
Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book Z
"Metafisica Zeta", il trattato aristotelico dedicato alla sostanza, è stato al centro di un enorme dibattito negli ultimi cinquanta anni. Gli studiosi si sono concentrati su un certo numero di problemi connessi al trattamento essenzialistico che Aristotele propone della nozione di sostanza, come anche alla sua analisi degli oggetti concreti in termini di materia e forma (ileomorfismo). Questo volume offre uno sguardo d'insieme sul dibattito critico sullo sfondo della metafisica contemporanea, prevalentemente di matrice analitica. Esso si divide perciò in due parti. Nella prima, Mauro Mariani presenta alcune teorie moderne dell'essenza e illustra differenti punti di vista sulla struttura degli individui concreti e della loro identità. Nella seconda parte, invece, Gabriele Galluzzo considera i principali problemi filosofici e interpretativi posti dal libro Zeta, cercando di mettere ordine nell'intricato dibattito critico attraverso una valutazione dei meriti testuali e filosofici delle singole proposte esegetiche. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali
The Fragmentation of Being
The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than other objects? Are there different ways in which one object might enjoy more being than another? Most contemporary metaphysicians would answer "no" to each of these questions. So widespread is this consensus that the questions this book addressed are rarely even raised let alone explicitly answered. But Kris McDaniel carefully examines a wid...
From Glosses to Dictionaries
This book presents—through a series of nine high quality essays by international scholars—the beginnings of the lexicographic tradition and the appearance of the first mono- and multilingual dictionaries in various language areas across the world, paying particular attention to their dependence on glosses and glossaries. The contributions analyze, on the basis of significant case studies, how dictionaries first emerged in a wide spectrum of cultures, ranging from Greek Antiquity to 9th-century Japan, from Medieval Britain to 15th-century Poland. In this way, the book highlights both similarities and differences among these traditions, and allows a global and comparative approach to the history of lexicography in its earliest phases, a topic which, up until now, has usually been studied only within single languages and cultures.
The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) lived an active, demanding academic and ecclesiastical life that ended while he was still comparatively young. He nonetheless produced many works, varying in length from a few pages to a few volumes. The present book is an introduction to this influential author and a guide to his thought on almost all the major topics on which he wrote. The book begins with an account of Aquinas's life and works. The next section contains a series of essays that set Aquinas in his intellectual context. They focus on the philosophical sources that are likely to have influenced his thinking, the most prominent of which were certain Greek philosophers (chiefly Aristotle), Latin Chr...
Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Human Act
This book argues that, for Aquinas, a human act exhibits a structure analogous to that of a material object.
Learning to Live Naturally
At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism among scholars and the general public, this book offers a sustained examination of the core Stoic ethical claims and their significance for modern moral theory. The first part considers the Stoic ideas of happiness as the life according to nature and virtue as expertise in leading a happy life and explores the senses of 'nature' (both human and universal) relevant for ethics. The second part studies Stoic thinking on ethical development (learning to live naturally), bringing out the interconnections between growth in ethical understanding, forming social relationships, and emotional responses. The third part discusses how Stoic ethics, as inter...
Being and Reason
In Spinoza's metaphysics there is only one substance, God or nature. Martin Lin offers a new interpretation, arguing against idealist readings where the metaphysical is grounded in something epistemic, logical, or psychological. In Lin's realist interpretation, finite natural creatures stand to God or nature as waves stand to an ocean.
