Being, Essence and Substance in Plato and Aristotle

AvPaul Ricoeur

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the outstanding French philosophers of the 20th century and his work is widely read in the English-speaking world. This unique volume comprises the lectures that 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. The relation between Plato and Aristotle is commonly portrayed as a contrast between a philosophy of essence and a philosophy of substance, but Ricoeur shows that this opposition is too simple. Aristotelian ontology is not a simple antithesis to Platonism: the radical ontology of Aristotle stands in a far more subtle relation of continuity and opposition to that of Plato and it is this relation we have to reconstruct and understand. Ricoeur’s lectures offer a brilliant analysis of the great works of Plato and Aristotle which has withstood the test of time. They also provide a unique insight into the development of Ricoeur’s thinking in the early 1950s, revealing that, even at this early stage of his work, Ricoeur was focused sharply on issues of language and the text.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-08-02
Mått:160 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:562 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9780745660547

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Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished philosophers of the twentieth century. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago. His many works include Freud and Philosophy, Time and Narrative and Oneself as Another.Translated by David Pellauer and John Starkey.

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Editor’s IntroductionThe Goal and Plan of the CourseI. PlatoPart I: “True Being” or the IdeaIntroduction to Plato, Part IChapter 1 The Meaning of the Platonic “Eidos”Chapter 2 Essence and LanguageChapter 3 Science and EssenceI. “Opinion” as the Negative of ScienceChapter 4 Science and EssenceII. Right Opinion as “Intermediary”Chapter 5 Science and EssenceIII. The Mathematical “Intermediary”Chapter 6 Science and Essence (Conclusion)IV. The “Terminus” of Science: ContemplationPart II: The Idea of Being and Non-BeingIntroduction to Plato, Part IIChapter 1 The Question of Being in the ParmenidesChapter 2 The Success and Failures of Platonism in the SophistChapter 3 The Genesis of the Sensible in the TimaeusPart III: Being and the “Divine”Introduction to Plato, Part IIIChapter 1 The Problem of the “Divine” and pre-Socratic PhilosophyChapter 2 The “Divine” in PlatoII. AristotleIntroduction to AristotlePart I: Being as BeingChapter 1 The “Genetic” Interpretation of Aristotle’s MetaphysicsChapter 2 Philosophy: Its Intention and Its MemoryChapter 3 Philosophy and Its “Aporias”Chapter 4 The Object of “First Philosophy”Part II: Being and SubstanceIntroduction to Aristotle, Part IIChapter 1 Sensible Substance: Substance as SubstrateChapter 2 Sensible Substance (continued): Substance as FormChapter 3 Substance and the IndividualChapter 4 “Separated” Substance