John Duns Scotus on parts, wholes, and hylomorphism /
In John Duns Scotus on Parts, Wholes, and Hylomorphism, Thomas M. Ward analyzes and interprets Scotus's arguments for his distinctive version of hylomorphism as it relates to various issues in the metaphysics of parts and wholes.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Brill,
2014.
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| Series: | Investigating medieval philosophy ;
volume 7. |
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Table of Contents:
- John Duns Scotus on Parts, Wholes, and Hylomorphism; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Purpose of Prime Matter; i Distinguishing Matter from Form; ii Motivating Matter: The Argument from Change; iii Why Must Matter Persist through Change?; iv Matter as Passive Power; v Obediential Potency and the Subject of Passive Power; 2 The Ontology of Prime Matter; i Matter as Subjective Potency; ii A Shifting Opinion about Matter's Separability from Form; iii Particular and Total Separability; 3 How Matter and Form Compose a Substance-Part I.
- I Forms as Partsii Matter and Form as Essential Parts; iii Degrees of Unity; iv Existence is not Enough; v Making a Difference; 4 How Matter and Form Compose a Substance-Part II; i Producing Substance from Matter and Form; ii Causal and Co-Causal Relations; iii Innovating Aristotle's Principle about Relational Change; iv The Identification of Parthood Relations with Causal Relations; v The Causality of Matter and Form; vi Dispensing with Total Separability?; vii Conclusions: Composing, and Composing; 5 Scotistic Pluralism about Substantial Form-Part I.
- I Unitarianism and Pluralism about Substantial Formii Scotus against Unitarianism; iii Scotus against Standard Pluralism; iv An Inconsistent Position about the Form of Corporeity?; 6 Scotistic Pluralism about Substantial Form-Part II; i The Special Potency Question; ii Essential Orders; iii Essentially Ordered Unity; iv The Role of Soul in Scotus and Two Unitarians; 7 Contingent Supposits and Contingent Substances; i Three Modes of per se Being; ii Ockham on the Distinction between Substance and Supposit; iii What's Special about Supposits?; iv Arbitrary Part-Substances?
- 8 The Mereological Status of the Elements in a Mixturei Mixed Opinions about Mixtures; ii The Argument from Quantitative Forms; iii The Generation and Corruption Argument; iv The Violence Argument; v Generation from the Elements; vi Mixtures and Organic Parts; 9 Why the World is not a Substance; i Motivating Monism; ii The Argument from the Distinguishing of Forms; iii The World/Organism Analogy; iv Properties of the Whole that are not Properties of the Parts; 10 Scotistic Hylomorphism and the Problem of Homonymy; i Scotistic Hylomorphism Among Other Varieties; ii Ackrill's Problem.
- Iii Aquinas's Responseiv The Standard Pluralistic Response; v Scotus's Response; vi Scotus, Aquinas, and the Ultimate Subject of Substantial Change; vii Faulty Metaphysics or Faulty Chemistry? Scotistic Hylomorphism and the Four Elements; Bibliography; General Index.
