Aristotelian Aporetic Ontology in Islamic and Christian Thinkers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521090445)

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.

Author: Edward Booth
ISBN-10: 052109044X
ISBN-13: 9780521090445
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2008
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d