Multiplicity and unity of being in Aristotle

Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 185-207

  Berti, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1111/j.0066-7372.2003.00027.x     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. See White, Toward a Reunion in Philosophy, Cambridge Mass. 1956, pp. 60-80
2. Ryle, Philosophical Arguments, Oxford 1945, pp. 15-16
3. Ryle, The Concept of Mind, London 1949, p. 23
4. Quine, Word and Object, Cambridge Mass. 1960, p. 131
5. Quine, Ontological Relativity and Other Essays, New York 1969, pp. 99-100
6. Inwagen, 'Meta-Ontology', Erkenntnis, 48, 1998, pp. 233-250
7. Austin, Philosophical Papers, 2nd edn., Oxford 1970, p. 71
8. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia, Oxford 1962, p. 64. Italics in the text
9. Aristotle, Metaphysics Γ 2, 1003a33
10. Translation by A. Madigan (Aristotle's Metaphysics, Books B and K 1-2, Oxford 1999) with some modifications
11. Aristotle's Metaphysics, a revised text with introduction and commentary by W. D. Ross, Oxford 1953, I, p. 235
12. This is the translation by C. Shields, Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle, Oxford 1999, pp. 247-248
13. See the different interpretations in T. Waitz (Aristotelis Organon graece, Leipzig 1844-1846, II, p. 500)
14. W. D. Ross (Aristotle's Metaphysics, I, p. 235)
15. J. Tricot (Aristote, Organon. V: Les Topiques, Paris 1950, ad loc)
16. A. Zadro (Aristotele, I Topici, Napoli 1974, p. 485)
17. Aristot. Metaph. 11, 1052b16-18
18. Geach, Reference and Generality. An Examination of some Medieval and Modern Theories, Ithaca 1980, p. 63
19. Dummett, Frege. Philosophy of Language, London 1981, p. 547
20. Wright, Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects, Aberdeen 1983, p. 3
21. Austin, Agathon and eudaimonia in the Ethics of Aristotle', in Philosophical Papers, pp. 1-31, esp. p. 27
22. Hintikka, 'Aristotle and the Ambiguity of Ambiguity', Inquiry, 2, 1959, pp. 137-151, esp. 142
23. This interpretation was in part suggested to me by Paolo Fait in a seminar on Aristotle held in Padua in April 2000. It is present also in Notes on Book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, ed. by M. Burnyeat and others, Oxford 1979
24. In favour of the identification of the two uses is clearly oriented the commentary of M. Frede and G. Patzig, Aristoteles 'Metaphysik Z', Text, Übersetzung and Kommentar, München 1988, II, pp. 70-71
25. Owen, 'Logic and metaphysics in some earlier works of Aristotle', in I. During and Owen (eds.), Aristotle and Plato in the mid-fourth century, Göteborg-Stockholm-Uppsala 1960, pp. 162-190
26. repr. in Owen, Logic, science, and dialectic: Collected papers in Greek philosophy, Ithaca, N.Y. 1986, pp. 180-199
27. The 'reductionist' tendency of these expressions was strongly criticised by W. Leszl, Logic and metaphysics in Aristotle, Padova 1970. It was also corrected by Owen himself in his later articles
28. Patzig, 'Theologie und Ontologie in der Metaphysik des Aristoteles', Kant-Studien, 52, 1960-1961, pp. 185-205
29. In the English translation of his article, published in J. Barnes, M. Schofield and R. Sorabji, Articles on Aristotle, vol. III, London 1973, pp. 33-49, Patzig corrects his interpretation, distinguishing paronymy from 'focal meaning' and founding the unity of metaphysics only on the latter
30. Frede, Essays in Ancient Philosophy, Minneapolis 1987, pp. 81-95
31. This has been noted also by an Italian scholar who shares the interpretation of Frede, P. Donini, La Metafisica di Aristotele: Introduzione alla lettura, Firenze 1995, p. 101
32. Theophrastus, Metaph. 7, 5a25-27
33. Owens, The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics, Toronto 1978, pp. 395, 457
34. Cf. also Owens, 'The Relation of God to the World in the Metaphysics', in P. Aubenque (ed.), Etudes sur la Métaphysique d'Aristote, Paris 1978, pp. 207-228
35. More than twenty years ago I wrote an article on this subject, which, though published in an important miscellanea, remained without replies: cf. Berti, 'Le problème de la substantialité de l'être et de l'un dans la Métaphysique', in P. Aubenque (ed.), Etudes sur la Métaphysique d'Aristote, pp. 89-130
36. Cf. Madigan's commentary to Metaph. B already quoted, p. 111
37. Apparently, the Aristotelian criticism of the existence of a being itself is shared by J. Owens, 'The Content of Existence', in M. Munitz (ed.), Logic and Ontology, New York 1973, pp. 21-35