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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"substance ontology"”.
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Nietzsche's will-to-power ontology : an interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil
Abstract: Nietzsche's Will-to-Power Ontology: An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil § 36 By: Mark Minuk Will-to-power is the central component of Nietzsche's philosophy, and passage 36 of Beyond Good and Evil is essential to coming to an understanding of it. 1 argue for and defend the thesis …
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Personal identity and persistence over time : the hybrid view with regard to hylomorphism
… in Aristotle’s metaphysics and embedded in his substance ontology. Chapter 3 proposes that the most reasonable conception of what we are and how we persist is based on non-reductionist aspects of identity. This chapter draws on and extends Chapter 2’s Aristotelian account of identity by focusing …
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What's the Matter? Toward a Neo-Aristotelian Ontology of Nature
… to the development of a ‘neo-Aristotelian’ ontology of powers that accommodates quantum phenomena. It offers a number of philosophical objections to ‘Super-Humean’ metaphysics, and constructs a sequence of models that aim to improve upon it, using the metaphysical toolbox constructed in Part …