Form, Matter, Substance
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This work defends a hylomorphic analysis of concrete particular
objects (e.g., living organisms). The Aristotelian doctrine of
hylomorphism holds that those entities that fall under it are
compounds of matter (hulē) and form (morphē or eidos).
The author argues that a hylomorphic analysis of concrete
particular objects is well equipped to compete with alternative
approaches when measured against a wide range of criteria of
success. A successful application of the doctrine of hylomorphism
to the special case of concrete particular objects, however, hinges
on how hylomorphists conceive of the matter composing a concrete
particular object, its form, and the hylomorphic relations which
hold between a matter–form compound, its matter and its form.
Through the detailed answers to these questions the author develops
in this book, matter–form compounds, despite their metaphysical
complexity, emerge as occupying the privileged ontological status
traditionally associated with substances, due in particular to
their high degree of unity. |
| Mots-clés |
concrete particular objects, hylomorphism, Aristotle, matter, form, compound, substance, unity |
| Citation | Koslicki, K. (2018). Form, Matter, Substance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Type | Livre (Anglais) |
| Année | 2018 |
| Editeur commercial | Oxford University Press (Oxford) |
| URL | https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.109... |