Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics

Hylomorphism is a metaphysical theory that explains the unity of material objects through a special immaterial part, a ''form''. While contemporary accounts of hylomorphism appeal to structure, and advocate that material substances can have other substances as parts, James Dominic Rooney highlights the flaws in this Neo-Aristotelian way of thinking. Instead, he draws on medieval European and Chine...