I propose for a discussion my study regarding some aspects of Aristotle's ontology. I am interested in all comments - apart from insults -.
The study has been published in the Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, Vol 64, Issue 1, January-June 2020, pp. 39-71.
Keywords: Aristotle, instance, Categories, Metaphysics, substance.
In my contribution, I deal with some aspects concerning the textures, which, in my opinion, represent the bearing structures of Aristotle’s ontology.
Throughout my investigation, I show that, within Aristotle’s ontology, the basic status of any individual/particular entity consists in its being an instance of a property or of a complex of properties: individual/particular entities are, constitutively, concretised properties. Neither bare entities, nor entities which could be neutral to all their properties, are admitted into Aristotle’s ontology; at least some properties represent the very framework of the individual/particular entities. Hence, essences do exist. Aristotle’s interpretation of individual/particular entities is an immediately essentialist one.
I show thereafter the presence, within Aristotle’s ontology, of features which constitutively determine the status of substance and of universal. The complex of the features related to substances and to universals implies the existence of ontological rules making up the framework of any substance as such and of any universal as such. These ontological rules precede the properties belonging to the particular concrete substances as members of a particular species or of a particular genus. Among the ontological rules which govern substances and universals, the rules stating the incompatibility between substance and universal deserve particular attention, since the transgression committed against these rules can provoke the collapse of the whole ontology.
My analysis ends with the description of some facets regarding the role of the essence within the biological field. For this purpose, the soul as essence of biological entities is described in its function as principle of development of the living entities.
I base my inquiry on passages taken from the Metaphysics Mu and Zeta, the Posterior Analytics, the De Caelo, the Categories and the De Anima.
Hi Dr Gianluigi Segalerba . See the following useful link: https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/nasko/article/viewFile/15869/13291
Kindly see also the following very good link : https://journals.openedition.org/variants/932
See also the following useful RG link: Article Features of Ontology in Aristotle
Dear Professor Aref Wazwaz ,
I thank you very much for your indications.
Yours sincerely,
Gianluigi Segalerba
You are most welcome dear
Prof. Gianluigi Segalerba . Wish you the best always.
Ontology helps researchers recognize how certain they can be about the nature and existence of objects they are researching. For instance, what 'truth claims' can a researcher make about reality? https://i2insights.org/2017/05/02/philosophy-for-interdisciplinarity/
The ontology or an appropriate version of it can be used to guide students to understand the organization of their own learning and to self- assess their own progress. The ontologies are created by sets of people with expertise in content, teaching, psychology, and measurement. https://cresst.org/wp-content/uploads/cresst_resource13.pdf
Check https://books.openmonographs.org/articles/book/Aristotle_s_Ontology_of_Change/12404240
Dear Professor Chinaza Godswill Awuchi ,
I thank you very much for your observations and for the references to the documents.
Yours sincerely,
Gianluigi Segalerba
The element of Being in itself—cannot be fully grasped by our thoughts and we are free to think far and wide.
https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/nasko/article/viewFile/15869/13291
Dear Professor Nawab Khan ,
I thank you very much for your referring to the article. I am going to read it with great interest.
Yours sincerely,
Gianluigi Segalerba
I would like to thank all researchers who recommended this discussion.
I should like to thank all researchers who follows this discussion.
Dear Professor Kiprotich Kiptum ,
I thank you very much for your observations.
Yours sincerely,
Gianluigi Segalerba
With respect to your query Gianluigi Segalerba , I do understand features of ontology in Aristotle as a cosmo-logical method of pattern replication in our material world, e.g. the natural pattern of a cow is replicated via the living physical unit of a cow. Aristotelian thought is dominated by the assumption of eternal matter, i.e. dead and living matter have no initial origin, but are evolutionary functions of eternal matter. Matter as creation is more a biblical Hebrew idea; this is also the reason, why the Septuagint uses the 'wrong' word (ἐποίησεν) for creation=to produce something from something=not something from nothing. Maybe, these elaborations (pdf. attached) are of some use for your research.
Dear Stephen I. Ternyik ,
I thank you very much for your interesting observations.
I too think that the concept of creation is absent in Aristotle. I think too the the patterns of biological entities are replicated in the matter.
I have to write a study on the subject in which I expose all the points of my interpretation.
I thank you very much again.
Best regards,
Gi
Thank you all professors for the good question, answers and links, the discussion is attractive to follow.
All the best,
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