Description
Book SynopsisPaul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the outstanding French philosophers of the 20th century and his work is widely read in the English-speaking world. This unique volume comprises the lectures that Ricoeur gave on Plato and Aristotle at the University of Strasbourg in 1953-54.
Table of ContentsEditor’s Introduction
The Goal and Plan of the Course
I. Plato
Part I: “True Being” or the Idea
Introduction to Plato, Part I
Chapter 1 The Meaning of the Platonic “Eidos”
Chapter 2 Essence and Language
Chapter 3 Science and Essence
I. “Opinion” as the Negative of Science
Chapter 4 Science and Essence
II. Right Opinion as “Intermediary”
Chapter 5 Science and Essence
III. The Mathematical “Intermediary”
Chapter 6 Science and Essence (Conclusion)
IV. The “Terminus” of Science: Contemplation
Part II: The Idea of Being and Non-Being
Introduction to Plato, Part II
Chapter 1 The Question of Being in the Parmenides
Chapter 2 The Success and Failures of Platonism in the Sophist
Chapter 3 The Genesis of the Sensible in the Timaeus
Part III: Being and the “Divine”
Introduction to Plato, Part III
Chapter 1 The Problem of the “Divine” and pre-Socratic Philosophy
Chapter 2 The “Divine” in Plato
II. Aristotle
Introduction to Aristotle
Part I: Being as Being
Chapter 1 The “Genetic” Interpretation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Chapter 2 Philosophy: Its Intention and Its Memory
Chapter 3 Philosophy and Its “Aporias”
Chapter 4 The Object of “First Philosophy”
Part II: Being and Substance
Introduction to Aristotle, Part II
Chapter 1 Sensible Substance: Substance as Substrate
Chapter 2 Sensible Substance (continued): Substance as Form
Chapter 3 Substance and the Individual
Chapter 4 “Separated” Substance
