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Aristotle's Metaphysics: Form, Matter and Identity

Aristotle's Metaphysics: Form, Matter and Identity

Hardcover

Series: Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Book 21

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1847062466
ISBN13: 9781847062468
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 1 2009
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Aristotle maintains that biological organisms are compounds of matter and form and that compounds that have the same form are individuated by their matter. According to Aristotle, an object that undergoes change is an object that undergoes a change in form, i.e. form is imposed upon something material in nature. Aristotle therefore identifies organisms according to their matter and essential forms, forms that are arguably essential to an object's existence.

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