Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics - James Dominic Rooney

Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics

The Inevitability of Hylomorphism
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-27634-5 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
Hylomorphism is a metaphysical theory that explains the unity of material objects through a special immaterial part, a ‘form’. While contemporary accounts of hylomorphism appeal to structure, and advocate that material substances can have other substances as parts, James Dominic Rooney highlights the flaws in this Neo-Aristotelian way of thinking. Instead, he draws on medieval European and Chinese traditions to put forward that the classical approach to the unity of material objects in terms of ‘form’ remains theoretically superior.

Rooney shows how Thomas Aquinas’ account of form gives a more coherent version of hylomorphism, eliminating the need for substance parts. He also studies the Song dynasty Confucian thinker Zhu Xi’s hylomorphic intuition that whatever accounts for the composition of some parts into a material whole is a metaphysical part of that object. By appealing to the same non-Aristotelian considerations as Zhu Xi, Rooney explains why all those who believe in the unity of material objects will appeal to a form, enabling hylomorphism to remain a plausible framework. In doing so, this book shines new light on a classic philosophical problem in contemporary metaphysics and demonstrates the far-reaching points of theoretical contact between Western and Confucian thought.

James Dominic Rooney, OP is a Dominican Friar and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.

Introduction
1. Structural Hylomorphism
2. Structural Deterioration
3. From Structure to Substantial Forms
4. Zhu Xi’s Metaphysics of Material Objects
5. Forms Matter
Conclusion: The Significance of Hylomorphism

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10 1-350-27634-0 / 1350276340
ISBN-13 978-1-350-27634-5 / 9781350276345
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