LIBROS DEL AUTOR: barrie fleet

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  • Simplicius
    Barrie Fleet
    In Categories chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality. Critics of Aristotle had suggested for each of the non-substance categories that they could really be reduced to relatives, so it is important how the category of Relative is defined. Aristotle offers two definitions, and the second, stricter, one is often cited b...
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  • Simplicius
    Barrie Fleet / Frans De Haas
    Chapters 5 and 6 of Aristotle’s Categories describe his first two categories, Substance and Quantity. It is usually taken that Plotinus attacked Aristotle’s Categories, but that Porphyry and Iamblichus restored it to the curriculum once and for all. Nonetheless, the introduction to this text stresses how much of the defence of Aristotle Porphyry was able to draw out of Plotinus...
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  • Simplicius
    Barrie Fleet
    Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle’s ideas, as well as being the most interesting and representative book in the whole of his corpus. It defines nature and distinguishes natural science from mathematics. It introduces the seminal idea of four causes, or four modes of explanation. It defines chance, but rejects a theory of chance and natural se...
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