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It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Aristotle for a number of intellectual disciplines from Antiquity into the Middle Ages and beyond. However, Aristotle's philosophical ideas - both in themselves and as they were re-worked by later commentators - remain a subject of lively debate among contemporary philosophers and scholars. Form and Universal in Aristotle is a contribution to this controversy, offering the first full-length case against a conventional picture which presents Aristotle as holding an in re theory of universals. Chapters 1-3 argue that forms as such are not universals but particular and identical with particular things. Chapter 4 explains how Alexander of Aphrodisias filled some gaps in this theory and was followed by the Neoplatonic commentators. Excursuses at various points in the book suggest a bearing of this approach on other philosophical difficulties in Aristotle, such as the nature of thought, the extent of God's thought, and the functions of matter.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Form and Universal in Aristotle
• Author: A.C. Lloyd
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 89
• EAN: 9780905205052
• ISBN: 0905205057
• ID: 04760274
• Publisher: Francis Cairns Publications Ltd
• Weight: 132 g
• Dimensions: 219 × 103 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2006

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