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Being, Essence and Substance in Plato and Aristotle
Author: Ricoeur Paul
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Publication date: 09-2013
260 p. · 16x23.5 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 09-2013
260 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
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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.
Editor’s Introduction
The Goal and Plan of the Course
I. Plato
Part I: “True Being” or the Idea
Introduction to Plato, Part I
Chapter 1 The Meaning of the Platonic “Eidos”
Chapter 2 Essence and Language
Chapter 3 Science and Essence
I. “Opinion” as the Negative of Science
Chapter 4 Science and Essence
II. Right Opinion as “Intermediary”
Chapter 5 Science and Essence
III. The Mathematical “Intermediary”
Chapter 6 Science and Essence (Conclusion)
IV. The “Terminus” of Science: Contemplation
Part II: The Idea of Being and Non-Being
Introduction to Plato, Part II
Chapter 1 The Question of Being in the Parmenides
Chapter 2 The Success and Failures of Platonism in the Sophist
Chapter 3 The Genesis of the Sensible in the Timaeus
Part III: Being and the “Divine”
Introduction to Plato, Part III
Chapter 1 The Problem of the “Divine” and pre-Socratic Philosophy
Chapter 2 The “Divine” in Plato
II. Aristotle
Introduction to Aristotle
Part I: Being as Being
Chapter 1 The “Genetic” Interpretation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Chapter 2 Philosophy: Its Intention and Its Memory
Chapter 3 Philosophy and Its “Aporias”
Chapter 4 The Object of “First Philosophy”
Part II: Being and Substance
Introduction to Aristotle, Part II
Chapter 1 Sensible Substance: Substance as Substrate
Chapter 2 Sensible Substance (continued): Substance as Form
Chapter 3 Substance and the Individual
Chapter 4 “Separated” Substance
Translated by David Pellauer and John Starkey.
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