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- Title: Substance and Life in Aristotle (Report)
- Author : APIERON
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 203 KB
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I The Dignity of Substance W. D. Ross speaks easily of Aristotle as excluding artefacts from attaining 'the dignity of substance'. (1) His doing so may seem fair enough, since no artefact is a living being and Aristotle twice declares, or seems to declare, that only living entities qualify as substances: (Metaph 1041b28-31, 1043b19-23; cf. Metaph 1042a7-8, 1043a5-6, 1070a5-20; Ph 192b32-4). Yet the doctrine Ross ascribes to Aristotle is not an easy one to defend; nor is it even, as expressed, a doctrine readily understood. For in speaking this way, Ross evidently treats the category of substance as somehow normative, or at least as scalar, and one would have thought that the ontological categories of being discriminated by Aristotle were fixed and invariant, determined by exhaustive and exclusive binary metaphysical features: something either is or is not a substance, and whatever is not a substance is something else, say a quantity or a quality.