Aquinas's ontology of the material world : change, hylomorphism, and material objects /

What is the nature of the material world? And how are its fundamental constituents to be described? These questions are of central concern to contemporary philosophers, and in their attempt to answer them, they have begun reconsidering traditional views about metaphysical structure, including the Ar...

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Main Author: Brower, Jeffrey E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:1st ed.
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