Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity

by Mary Louise Gill

This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary substances? Mary Louise Gill bases her treatment of the problem of unity, and of Aristotle's solution, on a fresh interpretation of the relation between matter and form. Challenging the traditional understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691020701
• ISBN13: 9780691020709
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"