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Being, Essence and Substance in Plato and Aristotle (Paperback, New)
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Being, Essence and Substance in Plato and Aristotle (Paperback, New)
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Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the outstanding French
philosophers of the 20th century and his work is widely read in the
English-speaking world. This unique volume comprises the lectures
that Ricoeur gave on Plato and Aristotle at the University of
Strasbourg in 1953-54. The aim of these lectures is to analyse the
metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle and to discern in their work the
ontological foundations of Western philosophy. The relation between
Plato and Aristotle is commonly portrayed as a contrast between a
philosophy of essence and a philosophy of substance, but Ricoeur
shows that this opposition is too simple. Aristotelian ontology is
not a simple antithesis to Platonism: the radical ontology of
Aristotle stands in a far more subtle relation of continuity and
opposition to that of Plato and it is this relation we have to
reconstruct and understand. Ricoeur’s lectures offer a brilliant
analysis of the great works of Plato and Aristotle which has
withstood the test of time. They also provide a unique insight into
the development of Ricoeur’s thinking in the early 1950s,
revealing that, even at this early stage of his work, Ricoeur was
focused sharply on issues of language and the text.
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