Discovery of things, the: aristotle's categories and their context
Auteur :
Mann, Wolfgang-Rainer
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691010205
Date de publication :
13 mars 2000
Dimensions :
25,4 x 19,7 cm
Poids :
482 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naive, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. This book reveals that Aristotle's conception of things - now so engrained in Western thought as to seem a natural expression of common sense - was a hard-won philosophical achievement.