Date of Award
Fall 1999
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Goldin, Owen
Second Advisor
Taylor, Richard C.
Third Advisor
Rousseau, Mary
Abstract
This study bad the inauspicious beginning that many dissertations do: its roots are in a term paper for a graduate course. The course was a seminar in ancient philosophy, conducted by Dr. Owen Goldin. In the seminar I became keenly interested in Aristotle's METAPHYSICS. After a follow-up course, an independent study on BOOK ETA of the METAPHYSICS, I became convinced that Aristotle's theory of substance in BOOK ZETA and ETA of the METAPHYSICS demanded close textual attention, and that I should devote myself to digging out the truth in that difficult book. Hence this study.
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