{"product_id":"9780905205052","title":"Form and Universal in Aristotle (Arca Series)","description":"It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Aristotle for a number of intellectual disciplines from Antiquity into the Middle Ages and beyond. However, Aristotle's philosophical ideas - both in themselves and as they were re-worked by later commentators - remain a subject of lively debate among contemporary philosophers and scholars. Form and Universal in Aristotle is a contribution to this controversy, offering the first full-length case against a conventional picture which presents Aristotle as holding an in re theory of universals. Chapters 1-3 argue that forms as such are not universals but particular and identical with particular things. Chapter 4 explains how Alexander of Aphrodisias filled some gaps in this theory and was followed by the Neoplatonic commentators. Excursuses at various points in the book suggest a bearing of this approach on other philosophical difficulties in Aristotle, such as the nature of thought, the extent of God's thought, and the functions of matter.","brand":"Francis Cairns Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028430045424,"sku":"9780905205052","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780905205052_p0.jpg?v=1763861428","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780905205052","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}