Change, Substance, and Cause

Change, Substance, and Cause
Author: Rafael Hüntelmann
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2024-03-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3868386033

Starting from our common experience of change, this book introduces the fundamental features of Aristotelian-Scholastic philosophy. After differentiating between the various types of change and motion, the author presents the concepts of act and potency, as well as form and matter. Further attention is given to the difference between substance and accident, and essence and existence. Finally, an overview of causality is given based on Aristotle’s doctrine of the four causes. This introductory course is aimed primarily at laypeople interested in philosophy and at high-school students beginning their studies of philosophy and the humanities. About the Author Rafael Hüntelmann, PhD is an author, publisher, and lecturer in philosophy. He is the co-editor of METAPHYSICA. International Journal for Ontology & Metaphysics. His most recent publications include Grundkurs Philosophie in six volumes, as well as the three-volume logic course Grundkurs klassische aristotelische Logik.

Grundkurs klassische aristotelische Logik

Grundkurs klassische aristotelische Logik
Author: Rafael Hüntelmann
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2024-01-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3868382321

Der 3. Band der Reihe thematisiert die materiale Logik, ein Themengebiet, dass der modernen Logik unbekannt ist. Während es in der formalen Logik um die formale Gültigkeit des Arguments geht, behandelt die materiale Logik den Inhalt und damit die Wahrheit der Argumente. Die materiale Logik ist zugleich eine allgemeine Einführung in die Philosophie, weil sie die Methoden der anderen Fächer der Philosophie bereitstellt. Es geht hier um die 10 Kategorien des Aristoteles, die Einteilung alles dessen, was es gibt, nach wesentlichen und akzidentellen Prädikaten, um die Frage, was eine Definition ist und welche Regeln bei Definitionen zu beachten sind. Inhalt Einführung und Überblick über die klassische aristotelische Logik; Was ist einfach Apprehension?; Inhalt und Umfang. Die zehn Kategorien; Die acht Einteilungen der zehn Kategorien; Die drei Anwendungen der zehn Kategorien. Die fünf Prädikabilien. Die Einteilung des Seienden nach seinem Umfang. Teil 1: Die Wesensprädikabilien; Teil 2: Die akzidentellen Prädikabilien; Definition: Der Ausdruck des Inhalts. Was ist eine Definition? Nominale und reale Definitionen; Definitionsregeln. Die Einteilungen der Realdefinition; Division. Die Einteilung des Seienden nach dem Umfang

Grundkurs klassische aristotelische Logik

Grundkurs klassische aristotelische Logik
Author: Rafael Hüntelmann
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2024-01-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3868382879

Die klassische aristotelische Logik ist durch ihre intuitive Verständlichkeit nach wie vor ein hervorragender Einstieg für das Studium der Philosophie und der Geisteswissenschaften. Sie verhilft zu einem klaren und geordneten Denken und ist trotz der modernen mathematischen Logik nicht überholt. Gerade für die Geisteswissenschaften ist die klassische Logik vollkommen ausreichend. Die klassische Logik ist eine Logik der linguistischen Ausdrücke. Diese drücken mentale Begriffe aus, welche reale Wesenheiten, bzw. die Natur der Dinge repräsentieren. Der vorliegende 1. Band der Reihe von insgesamt drei Bänden, zeichnet sich durch besondere Klarheit, Einfachheit und regelmäßige Wiederholung des Gelernten aus. Daher richtet er sich vor allem an Schüler der Sekundarstufe II und Studierende im Grundstudium.

Integralism

Integralism
Author: Thomas Crean
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2024-09-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3868382259

Integralism is the application to the temporal, political order of the full implications of the revelation of man’s supernatural end in Christ and of the divinely established means by which it is to be attained. These implications are identified by means of the philosophia perennis exemplified in the fundamental principles of St Thomas Aquinas. Since the first principle in moral philosophy is the last end, and man’s last end cannot be known except by revelation, it is only by accepting the role of handmaid of theology that political philosophy can be adequately constituted. Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy is a handbook for those who seek to understand the consequences of this integration of faith and reason for political, economic and individual civic life. It will also serve as a scholastic introduction to political philosophy for those new to the subject. Each chapter finishes with a list of the principal theses proposed. About the Authors Fr Thomas Crean is a friar of the English Province of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans). He has published with Ignatius Press and Gracewing, and is a Fellow of the Dialogos Institute. He has taught philosophy and theology in Austria, the United States and Northern Ireland. Alan Paul Fimister is Assistant Professor of Theology at Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, Colorado, USA and a Fellow of the Dialogos institute. He is the author of Robert Schuman: Neo-Scholastic Humanism and the Reunification of Europe (2008)

Foucault and Classical Antiquity

Foucault and Classical Antiquity
Author: Wolfgang Detel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2005-01-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139442449

This 2005 book is a critical examination of Michel Foucault's relation to ancient Greek thought, in particular his famous analysis of Greek history of sexuality. Wolfgang Detel offers an understanding of Foucault's theories of power and knowledge based on modern analytical theories of science and concepts of power. He offers a complex reading of the texts which Foucault discusses, covering topics such as Aristotle's ethics and theory of sex, Hippocratic dietetics, the earliest treatises on economics, and Plato's theory of love. The result is a philosophically rich and probing critique of Foucault's later writings, and a persuasive account of the relation between ethics, power and knowledge in classical antiquity. His book will have a wide appeal to readers interested in Foucault and in Greek thought and culture.

Aristotle's Revenge

Aristotle's Revenge
Author: Edward Feser
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9783868382006

Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are: The metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method. The status of scientific realism The metaphysics of space and time. The metaphysics of quantum mechanics. Reductionism in chemistry and biology. The metaphysics of evolution. Neuroscientific reductionism. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science, so as to bring contemporary philosophy and science into dialogue with the Aristotelian tradition.

The Theory of Evil in the Metaphysics of Aquinas

The Theory of Evil in the Metaphysics of Aquinas
Author: Mary Edwin DeCoursey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-11-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3868382445

This work is a metaphysical investigation, a study of the nature of evil, the modes in which it finds expression, and its relation to cause, as revealed in the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas. Although the problem of evil is one of the most urgent and vital questions of our time and Thomistic philosophy indicates the most satisfactory answer, the apologetic possibilities of the subject have been subordinated to its metaphysical aspects. The most important is the treatment of goodness, for without the good, no study of evil is possible.

Essence and Necessity

Essence and Necessity
Author: Daniel James Vecchio
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3868385959

This monograph is a critical and historical account of Aristotelian essentialism and modal logic. In Chapter One, ancient and contemporary interpretations and claims of inconsistency in Aristotle’s modal syllogistic are examined. A more consistent model is developed through attention to Aristotle’s comments on negation. In Chapter Two, proofs for each of the mixed apodictic syllogisms are analyzed and diagrammed. Chapter Three explores how Aristotle’s modal metaphysics fits within the context of the Posterior Analytics. Chapter Four contrasts Aristotelian modal logic to contemporary modal metaphysics and argues for ways in which a return to Aristotle may spark intriguing thought in contemporary discussions of the philosophy of science and in debate over the metaphysics of identity.

Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics

Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics
Author: E. Feser
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2013-07-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137367903

Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics is a collection of new and cutting-edge essays by prominent Aristotle scholars and Aristotelian philosophers on themes in ontology, causation, modality, essentialism, the metaphysics of life, natural theology, and scientific and philosophical methodology.