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Aquinas's Ontology of the Material World - Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects (Hardcover)
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Aquinas's Ontology of the Material World - Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects (Hardcover)
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What is the nature of the material world? And how are its
fundamental constituents to be described? These questions are of
central concern to contemporary philosophers, and in their attempt
to answer them, they have begun reconsidering traditional views
about metaphysical structure, including the Aristotelian view that
material objects are best described as 'hylomorphic compounds'-that
is, objects composed of both matter (hyle) and form (morphe). In
this major new study, Jeffrey E. Brower presents and explains the
hylomorphic conception of the material world developed by Thomas
Aquinas, the most influential Aristotelian of the Middle Ages.
According to Brower, the key to understanding Aquinas's conception
lies in his distinctive account of intrinsic change. Beginning with
a novel analysis of this account, Brower systematically introduces
all the elements of Aquinas's hylomorphism, showing how they apply
to material objects in general and human beings in particular. The
resulting picture not only sheds new light on Aquinas's ontology as
a whole, but provides a wholesale alternative to the standard
contemporary accounts of material objects. In addition to
presenting and explaining Aquinas's views, Brower seeks wherever
possible to bring them into dialogue with the best recent
literature on related topics. Along the way, he highlights the
contribution that Aquinas's views make to a host of contemporary
metaphysical debates, including the nature of change, composition,
material constitution, the ontology of stuff vs. things, the proper
analysis of ordinary objects, the truthmakers for essential vs.
accidental predication, and the metaphysics of property possession.
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