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Aristotle's Metaphysics - Form, Matter and Identity (Hardcover, New)
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Aristotle's Metaphysics - Form, Matter and Identity (Hardcover, New)
Series: Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy
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Aristotle maintains that biological organisms are compounds of
matter and form and that compounds that have the same form are
individuated by their matter. According to Aristotle, an object
that undergoes change is an object that undergoes a change in form,
i.e. form is imposed upon something material in nature. Aristotle
therefore identifies organisms according to their matter and
essential forms, forms that are arguably essential to an object's
existence. Jeremy Kirby addresses a difficulty in Aristotle's
metaphysics, namely the possibility that two organisms of the same
species might share the same matter. If they share the same form,
as Aristotle seems to suggest, then they seem to share that which
they cannot, their identity. By taking into account Aristotle's
views on the soul, its relation to living matter, and his rejection
of the possibility of resurrection, Kirby reconstructs an answer to
this problem and shows how Aristotle relies on some of the central
themes in his system in order to resist this unwelcome result that
his metaphysics might suggest.
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