Introduction to Aristotle's Theory of Being as Being / Edition 1

by W. Marx, Robert S. Schine

Overview

Philosophy finds itself "between tradition and another beginning." 1 For this reason it seems necessary to reconsider the foundations of traditional philosophy in the hope that out of these considerations new questions may arise which may lead to a new philosophical foundation. To this end neither the large manual nor the monograph is well suited. What is required, instead, is to take a few steps which lead our thoughts directly into the problems of a given, traditional, philosophical foun­ dation. In this sense the present work wishes to provide an "introduction" into that philosophical foundation which, until Hegel, had a decisive influence upon traditional philosophy_ Consequently, it does not see its task in providing a survey of this whole complex of problems. Nor does it offer solutions to questions about difficult passages which have been the subject of two thousand years of Aristotelian scholarship_ Instead, it follows a definite path which might bring this Aristotelian science, the theory which seeks to determine being as being, on hei on, closer to the student of philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789024719419
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/31/1977
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977
Pages:	62
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

One: Knowledge, Science and Philosophical Theory.- Two: The Ousiology.- Three: Ontology (Ousiology) and Theology.