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Aristotle's Ontology of Change (Paperback)
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Aristotle's Ontology of Change (Paperback)
Series: Rereading Ancient Philosophy
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This book investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and
how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that
change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts
such as matter, potency, actuality, sources of being, and the
teleology of emerging things. He shows that Aristotle's distinctive
ontological claim-that being is inescapably diverse in kind-is
anchored in his argument for the existence of change. Aristotle may
be the only thinker to have given a noncircular definition of
change. When he gave this definition, arguing that change is real
was a losing proposition. To show that it exists, he had to rework
the way philosophers understood reality. His groundbreaking
analysis of change has long been interpreted through a Platonist
lens, however, in which being is conceived as unchanging. Offering
a comprehensive reexamination of the relationship between change
and being in Aristotle, Sentesy makes an important contribution to
scholarship on Aristotle, ancient philosophy, the history and
philosophy of science, and metaphysics.
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