The Discovery of Things,Used

The Discovery of Things,Used

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Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a nave, prephilosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. WolfgangRainer 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 'LateLearners' of the Sophist. As Mann shows, the Categories reflects Aristotle's discovery that ordinary items are things (objects with properties). Put most starkly, Mann contends that there were no things before Aristotle.The author's argument consists of two main elements. First, a careful investigation of Plato which aims to make sense of the oddsounding suggestion that things do not show up as things in his ontology. Secondly, an exposition of the theoretical apparatus Aristotle introduces in the Categoriesan exposition which shows how Plato's and the LateLearners' metaphysical pictures cannot help but seem inadequate in light of that apparatus. In doing so, Mann reveals that Aristotle's conception of thingsnow so engrained in Western thought as to seem a natural expression of common sensewas really a hardwon philosophical achievement.Clear, subtle, and rigorously argued, The Discovery of Things will reshape our understanding of some of Aristotle'sand Plato'smost basic ideas.

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