Title Aristotle's metaphysics : form, matter, and identity / Jeremy Kirby.

Publication Info.	London ; New York : Continuum, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (163 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
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Series	Continuum studies in ancient philosophy
	Continuum studies in ancient philosophy.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-155) and index.
Contents	Matters of individuation -- Resurrection and entrapment -- Aristotle on composition and the puzzle of unity -- Particularities and the puzzle of composition.
Summary	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.
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Subject	Aristotle. Metaphysics.
	Metaphysics (Aristotle)
	Aristoteles.
	Metaphysics.
	Metaphysics.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Kirby, Jeremy. Aristotle's metaphysics. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2008 9781847062468 (DLC) 2008018905 (OCoLC)227191662
ISBN	9781441144546 (electronic book)
	1441144544 (electronic book)
	9781441154613 (paperback)
	1441154612 (paperback)
	9781847062468
	1847062466

Title Aristotle's metaphysics : form, matter, and identity / Jeremy Kirby.

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