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About this book
Aristotle sets the horizons of our inquiry: What is it when we say we know something? And is the object of knowledge a universal or particular [tode ti] object? Aristotle's critique of Plato's theory of form/Forms in light of his notion of actuality has generated a variety of topics that frame our inquiry: "Understanding Eidos as Form in the Works of Aristotle as Plato's Critical Student"; "Aristotle on Plato's Forms as Causes"; "Notes on the Relationship between Plato's Parmenides and Aristotle's Metaphysics Alpha"; "'Separate' and 'Inactive'? Aristotle's Most Challenging Critique of Plato's 'Forms'"; "Too Much Unity in a City Is Destructive of the City: Aristotle against Plato's Unification Project of the Polis"; "Aristotle on the Soul as Actuality"; "Delphic Piety in the De Anima of Alexander of Aphrodisias"; "Aristotle and Plotinus: Act and Potency and the Two Acts"; and "Al-F?r?b?on Habit and Imagination." Here, the Peripatetic readings of form and actuality are parsed from the precipice of historical, analytic, and continental approaches to the mind/language/object problem, with advocacy of the importance of Aristotle's contribution to this inquiry for the present age.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Understanding Eidos as Form in the Works of Aristotle as Plato’s Critical Student1
- Chapter 2: Aristotle on Plato’s Forms as Causes
- Chapter 3: Notes on the Relationship between Plato’s Parmenides and Aristotle’s Metaphysics Alpha
- Chapter 4: ‘Separate’ and ‘Inactive’?
- Chapter 5: Too Much Unity in a City Is Destructive of the City
- Chapter 6: Aristotle on the Soul as First Actuality
- Chapter 7: Delphic Piety in the De Anima of Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Chapter 8: Plotinus’ Reconfiguration of Aristotle’s Act and Potency into the Principle of Two Acts
- Chapter 9: Al-Fārābī on Habit and Imagination