The Discovery of Things: Aristotle's Categories and Their Context

by Wolfgang-Rainer Mann

Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a na?ve, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a revolutionary metaphysical picture, one Aristotle arrives at by (implicitly) criticizing Plato and Plato's strange counterparts, the "Late-Learners" of the Sophist. As Mann shows, the Categories reflects Aristotle's discovery that ordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069101020X
• ISBN13: 9780691010205
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"