Author | Yu, Jiyuan. author |
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Title | The Structure of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics [electronic resource] / by Jiyuan Yu |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0055-0 |
Descript | XX, 238 p. online resource |
1 Per se Being and Potential/actual Being -- i. Per se being -- ii. Potential/actual being -- iii. The scope of the focal structure of being -- 2 From Being to Substance -- i. The focal connection of per se beings -- ii. Potential/actual being and substance -- iii. The science of being -- 3 Hylomorphism and Its Two Approaches -- i. The composition of substance -- ii. Two hylomorphic approaches -- iii. The new start of Metaphysics vii. 17 -- iv. Re-grouping the central books -- 4 Subject, Form, and Essence -- i. Substance and subject -- ii. Form and subject -- iii. Substance and essence -- iv. The identity of form and essence -- 5 Form: Tode ti and Toionde -- i. Primary reality and knowledge -- ii. Separation, tode ti, and toionde -- iii. Tode ti, particularity, and individuality -- iv. Separation -- v. Tode ti and definition -- vi. Form as toionde -- vii. The universal and toionde -- viii. The ending of Metaphysics vii -- 6 Substantial Potentiality and Actuality -- i. Kin?sis and energeia -- ii. Substantial generation -- iii. Substantial activity -- iv. Substantial unity -- 7 Actuality and the Prime Mover -- i. From actual form to the Prime Mover -- ii. The Prime Mover and eternity -- iii. The Prime Mover and the world order -- 8 The Unity of Aristotle's Metaphysics -- Index of Passages -- Name Index