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Aristotle’s Early and Late Ontologies
Article first published online: 7 JUL 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00397.x
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Studtmann, P. (2011), Aristotle’s Early and Late Ontologies. Philosophy Compass, 6: 469–476. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00397.x
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Abstract
There is a very deep tension that exists at the heart of Aristotle’s metaphysical system in virtue of the fact that his works seem to contain two distinct and not obviously commensurate ontologies: an early ontology that Aristotle outlines in the Categories and a later ontology that he develops in his physical–metaphysical treatises. In this paper I briefly describe the two ontologies, discuss the sources of conflict and outline different scholarly speculations about the relationship between the two.