Aristotle as an Idealist

Aristotle on Principles as Elements

In his discussion of the four causes, Aristotle claims that ‘the hypotheses are material causes of the conclusion’ (Physics 2. 3, Metaphysics Δ 2). This claim has puzzled commentators since antiquity. It is usually taken to mean that the premisses of any deduction are material causes of the conclusion. By contrast, I argue that the claim does not apply to deductions in general but only to scien...

Aristotle: an introduction

Aristotle's Politics does not itself articulate any consolidated account of how the nature and scope of inquiry into politics are to be conceived. For that we need to turn to statements elsewhere in his writings, and particularly at the beginning and end oftheNicomachean Ethics. Adoption of this expository strategy is just one index of the fact that for Aristotle ethics and politics are not two...

An account of Aristotle`s ethical middle term

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Thomas Hodgkin: medical immortal and uncompromising idealist.

What Kind of Idealist Was Leibniz ?

Since the publication of Montgomery Furth’s groundbreaking 1967 essay, ‘Monadology’, discussions of Leibniz’s phenomenalism have been one of the main staples of Anglo-American Leibniz-scholarship. By no means, however, has any consensus been reached with regard to this issue. I think one important reason for this failure in agreement has to do with how one goes about understanding a related con...