Questions on Aristotle's Categories (The Fathers of the Church Series Mediaeval Continuation Series) - Hardcover

Scotus, John D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813226147 ISBN 13: 9780813226149

Verlag: The Catholic University of America Press, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

This work is the first English translation of Scotus's commentary on Aristotle's Quaestiones super Praedicamenta. Although there are numerous Latin commentaries on Aristotle's Categories, Scotus's Questions is one of the few commentaries on the Categories written in the thirteenth century covering all of Aristotle's text, including the often neglected post-praedicamenta, and the only complete Latin commentary available in English. Moreover, unlike many of the commentaries, Scotus's text is one of the last commentaries to be written before the nominalist reduction of the categories to substance and quality. The question format allows Scotus a great deal of liberty to discuss the categories in detail, as well as matters that are only remotely raised by the text. Altogether, the forty-four questions cover the following subjects: questions 1-4 are prolegomena to the work itself and raise the question of its subject matter as well as whether there can be a science of the categories; questions 5-8 deal with equivocal, univocal, and denominatives; questions 9-11 discuss Aristotle's two rules regarding predication and the sufficiency of the categories; questions 12-36 discuss the four main categories treated by Aristotle, namely, substance, quantity, relation, and quality; and the remaining eight questions discuss the post-praedicamenta.

Biografía del autor:

Lloyd A. Newton is associate professor of philosophy at Benedictine College.

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• Verlag: The Catholic University of America Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0813226147
• ISBN 13: 9780813226149
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352