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Single Idea 11234
[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
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Full Idea
Aristotle thinks there are three main candidates for primary being: the particular, the universal and the essence, and Aristotle will defend the third of these.
Gist of Idea
The three main candidates for primary being are particular, universal and essence; essence is the answer
Source
report of Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1028a33-6) by Vassilis Politis - Aristotle and the Metaphysics 1.4
Book Ref
Politis,Vasilis: 'Aristotle and the Metaphysics' [Routledge 2004], p.12
A Reaction
If you really want to understand this idea, you must study this bit of the text carefully, and examine the translation of key terms like 'ousia'. Lawson-Tancred's translation gives a very different picture from Politis's commentary!
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[concept of a mode of being prior to all others]:
21820
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Parmenides at least saw Being as the same as Nous, and separate from the sensed realm
[Parmenides, by Plotinus]
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21822
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Anaxagoras's concept of supreme Mind has a simple First and a multiple One
[Anaxagoras, by Plotinus]
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21821
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Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many
[Plato, by Plotinus]
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21818
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Being depends on the Good, which is not itself being, but superior to being
[Plato]
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11286
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Primary being must be more than mere indeterminate ultimate subject of predication
[Politis on Aristotle]
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11234
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The three main candidates for primary being are particular, universal and essence; essence is the answer
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11279
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Primary being is either universals, or the basis of predication, or essence
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11232
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Primary being ('proté ousia') exists in virtue of itself, not in relation to other things
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11293
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Non-primary beings lack essence, or only have a derived essence
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11297
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Primary being is both the essence, and the subject of predication
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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21812
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Being is the product of pure intellect
[Plotinus]
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21817
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The One does not exist, but is the source of all existence
[Plotinus]
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21824
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The One is a principle which transcends Being
[Plotinus]
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22103
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Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being
[Aquinas]
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6920
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Being posits essence, and my essence is my being
[Feuerbach]
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