A philosopher by the name of Werner Marx writes: "The substantiality elucidates the constitution of every particular. It is the logos of its 'blueprint,' its ousiological structure which is to be elucidated insofar as it inheres in the particular."
I ain't studying for no test or nothing. Just wanna know what this guy means?
2007-08-30 14:20:01 · 2 answers · asked by sokrates 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Larry, I'm looking at his book right now. The name is Werner Marx. He wrote the text The Meaning of Aristotle's 'Ontology'.
2007-08-30 14:39:11 · update #1
Firstly I would say it is false and scantly coherent; in the way he is talking, all the actuality or verb is described solely in the ''particular'' without, in this quote, an active consciousness to which the perception would be subject. In other words, substantially only elucidates if there is a consciousness actively elucidating or making clear or comprehensible the constituents coherent in the particular. The second sentences suggests substance is essence unless the second sentence is not taking the meaning of the first, on that condition, without knowing the meaning for the word 'ousiological structure' , the particulars essence is to be elucidated....it is BS. Essence is what we have in our mind for our identifying a particular but the thing is its self, not its essence and contains no essence 'blueprint'.
2007-08-30 16:14:58 · answer #1 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
His point is that things are known because they have some universal principle in them that makes them knowable. Substantiality refers to a thing's essence or universal principal. So, in the case of a person, he would say that we can only know Jack because he participates in the universal essence or substance of a human person.
2007-08-30 21:29:23 · answer #2 · answered by Jude & Cristen H 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋