A Philosophical History of Prime Matter: Volume 2 (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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From the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, philosophers across Europe and beyond reconfigured the nature, intelligibility, and causal role of matter in the constitution of the physical world. This book traces the development of hylomorphism from its diverse scholastic synthesis to its early modern transformation. Through studies of figures such as Grosseteste, Aquinas, Scotus, and Suárez, it reconstructs competing conceptions of prime matter - as pure potentiality, positive being, or fundamental substrate - and analyses their implications for metaphysics, natural philosophy, and theology. It also examines early modern encounters between Aristotelian hylomorphism and Chinese thought, exploring Jesuit engagements with Neo-Confucian cosmology and qi-based ontology. Combining detailed textual analyses with a global historical perspective, A Philosophical History of Prime Matter. Volume II: Scholastic and Early Modern Conceptions offers a comprehensive account of the redefinition of material ontology in the late medieval and early modern world.