Categorical arrangement and psychic activity. James Harris, an anti-Lockean Aristotelian
Petit, Alain
Categorical arrangement and psychic activity. James Harris, an anti-Lockean Aristotelian - 2018.
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Under the veil of a mere exegesis of Aristotle’s Categories, James Harris’s Philosophical Arrangements aspire to a theory of ultimate concepts, or, preferably, primitive concepts, insinuating under the guise of a fully-fledged Aristotelianism some kind of innatism, against the Lockean appropriation of Aristotle’s philosophy. More than an investigation on categories, it’s a metaphysics of mind that James Harris introduces into his treatise, implicitly renewing Shaftesbury’s polemic against Locke. So we must not be beguiled by the apparent exegesis to be found in Harris’s treatise. It is in fact one of the few essays that aim to view categories in the pre-transcendental mood.
Categorical arrangement and psychic activity. James Harris, an anti-Lockean Aristotelian - 2018.
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Under the veil of a mere exegesis of Aristotle’s Categories, James Harris’s Philosophical Arrangements aspire to a theory of ultimate concepts, or, preferably, primitive concepts, insinuating under the guise of a fully-fledged Aristotelianism some kind of innatism, against the Lockean appropriation of Aristotle’s philosophy. More than an investigation on categories, it’s a metaphysics of mind that James Harris introduces into his treatise, implicitly renewing Shaftesbury’s polemic against Locke. So we must not be beguiled by the apparent exegesis to be found in Harris’s treatise. It is in fact one of the few essays that aim to view categories in the pre-transcendental mood.
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