Aquinas's Ontology of the Material World
Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 March 2017
- ISBN 9780198776598
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 231x156x19 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Jeffrey E. Brower explores the hylomorphic conception of the material world developed by Thomas Aquinas, according to which objects comprise both matter (hyle) and form (morphe). He provides a wholesale alternative to standard accounts of material objects, and highlights the relevance of Aquinas's views to contemporary metaphysical debates.
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What is the nature of the material world? And how are its fundamental constituents to be described? These questions are of central concern to contemporary philosophers, and in their attempt to answer them, they have begun reconsidering traditional views about metaphysical structure, including the Aristotelian view that material objects are best described as 'hylomorphic compounds'--that is, objects composed of both matter (hyle) and form (morphe).
In this major new study, Jeffrey E. Brower presents and explains the hylomorphic conception of the material world developed by Thomas Aquinas, the most influential Aristotelian of the Middle Ages. According to Brower, the key to understanding Aquinas's conception lies in his distinctive account of intrinsic change. Beginning with a novel analysis of this account, Brower systematically introduces all the elements of Aquinas's hylomorphism, showing how they apply to material objects in general and human beings in particular. The resulting picture not only sheds new light on Aquinas's ontology as a whole, but provides a wholesale alternative to the standard contemporary accounts of material objects.
In addition to presenting and explaining Aquinas's views, Brower seeks wherever possible to bring them into dialogue with the best recent literature on related topics. Along the way, he highlights the contribution that Aquinas's views make to a host of contemporary metaphysical debates, including the nature of change, composition, material constitution, the ontology of stuff vs. things, the proper analysis of ordinary objects, the truthmakers for essential vs. accidental predication, and the metaphysics of property possession.
this is a careful, well-argued book. Whether or not one agrees with Browers interpretations of Aquinas, anyone interested in Aquinass ontology of the material world will need to take Browers book into account. And for any medievalist interested in learning the contemporary metaphysical landscape, or any metaphysician interested in understanding medieval metaphysics, I can think of no better bridge to employ than this book.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Part I. Introduction
A Sketch of the Complete Ontology
Filling Out the Sketch
Part II. Change
Change in General
Substantial vs. Accidental Change
Part III. Hylomorphism
From Change to Hylomorphism
Hylomorphism as a Type of Substratum Theory
In Defense of Hylomorphism
Part IV. Material Objects
From Hylomorphism to Material Compounds
Types of Material Compound
Material Compounds vs. Material Objects
Part V. Complications
Non-Standard Changes and Forms without Substrata
Mind-Body Dualism
The Afterlife
Appendix: A Glossary of Technical Terms
Bibliography
Index
