Aristotelian aporetic ontology in Islamic and Christian thinkers
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Aristotelian aporetic ontology in Islamic and Christian thinkers
(Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought / edited by G.G. Coulton, 3rd ser.,
Cambridge University Press, 1983
- pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Bibliography: p. 276-304
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a ground-breaking study of the consequences of a central problem in Aristotle's Metaphysics in the interpretation given to it by Islamic and Christian Aristotelian philosophers: the relationship between individuals as individuals, and individuals as instances of a universal. Father Booth begins from an examination of the factors causing the aporia in the centre of Aristotle's ontology, going on to elaborate the way in which it occurred sometimes with confused reactions among the Greek, Syrian and Arab commentators, and to note in particular the modifications to the weighting of elements in Aristotle's ontological figures (differing in detail, but in tendency the same) when his ontology was brought into the union with Platonist and other thought conventionally known as `Neoplatonism'. The discussion culminates in two chapters on the different reconciliations of the radical Aristotelian and the Neoplatonist traditions, proposed by Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas, in which the factors in the aporia have a key importance.
Table of Contents
- 1. Aristotle's aporetic ontology and the radical Aristotelian tradition
- 2. The neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle's ontology
- 3. The Christian Aristotelian reaction of the sixth century and monotheist modifications to the neoplatonist legacy
- 4. The Arab peripatetics
- 5. Albertus Magnus: A Logico-Emanationist figure as a means of accepting peripatretic philosophy into the Christian, platonist tradition
- 6. Thomas Aquinas: The 'aufhebung' of radical Aristotelian ontology into a pseudodionysianproclean ontology of 'esse'.
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