Discovery of Things
Aristotle''s Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naïve, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a revolutionary metaphysical picture, one Aristotle arrives at by (implicitly) criticizing Plato and Plato''s strange counterparts, the "Late-Learners" of the Sophist. As Mann shows, the Categories reflect...
Aristotle''s Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naïve, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a revolutionary metaphysical picture, one Aristotle arrives at by (implicitly) criticizing Plato and Plato''s strange counterparts, the "Late-Learners" of the Sophist. As Mann shows, the Categories reflect...
