Substance, Form, and Psyche: An Aristotelean Metaphysics

by Montgomery Furth

This book is a re-thinking of Aristotle's metaphysical theory of material substances. The view of the author is that the 'substances' are the living things, the chiefly, the animals. There are three main parts to the Part I, a treatment of the concepts of substance and nonsubstance in Aristotle's Categories; Part III, which discusses some important features of biological objects as Aristotelian substances, as analysed in Aristotle's biological treatises and the de Anima; and Part V, which attempts to relate the conception of substance as interpreted so far to that of the Metaphysics itself. The main aim of the study is to recreate in modern imagination a vivid, intuitive understanding of Aristotle's concept of material a certain distinctive concept of what an individual material object is.

316 pages, Paperback

First published March 26, 2007

Reviews

[Pavel]

I need this book.

[Simon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite simply, one of the most exciting books on metaphysics I have ever read.