Aristotelian Aporetic Ontology in Islamic and Christian Thinkers

Klappentext A study of the consequences of a central problem in Aristotle's Metaphysics in the interpretation given to it by Islamic and Christian Aristotelian philosophers. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Aristotle's aporetic ontology and the radical Aristotelian tradition; 2. The neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle's ontology; 3. The Christian Aristotelian reaction of the sixth century and monotheist modifications to the neoplatonist legacy; 4. The Arab peripatetics; 5. Albertus Magnus: A Logico-Emanationist figure as a means of accepting peripatretic philosophy into the Christian, platonist tradition; 6. Thomas Aquinas: The 'aufhebung' of radical Aristotelian ontology into a pseudodionysianproclean ontology of 'esse'.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Booth
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521090445
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09044-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works