Aristotelian Aporetic Ontology in Islamic and Christian Thinkers

by Edward Booth

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052109044X
• ISBN13: 9780521090445
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"