>>
>>2. The Categories of Aristotle is criticized in D & R in a fashion
>>that I don't understand. Is the problem that Substance is a category
>>in itself, as different from Being, but that every other of the 9
>>also must partake in that's the problem ? And if the mistake is so
>>great, why has not philosophy in general been enlightened ? And how
>>is Difference In itself supposed to become a Catgegory or something
>>similar to it...?
>>
>
>Aristotle says that substance is one of the 10 categories of being, but he
>also says that being is not a genus, so that the 10 categories do not share a
>common identity. He also, however, says that being qua being is substance, as
>only substance exists by virtue of itself, while the other categories -- i.e.,
>quality, quantity -- exist by virtue of existing in substances. It's this
>last idea that leads to the analogical conception of being -- substance is the
>primary meaning of being, and other categories have a being that is only
>analogous to the being of substance.
ok, but how come not all philosophers have noticed this before
deleuze in 1968 ?
>
>That is one aspect of the criticism in D&R, there are also problems Deleuze
>notes that the conception of being as substance, insofar as substance refers
>to form, confuses the concept of difference with those differences compatible
>with the concept (that is, compatible with identity). Here, Aristotle's
>differentia are contraries, and contraries are treated as the maximum form of
>difference, but as Deleuze notes contrariety is maximum only with respect to
>essence.
>
Hmm. sorry I can't follow, could you give an example (have't read
your book print yet.)
^/JAn, thankful for all topics on D & R
>
>Nathan
>
>Dr. Nathan Widder
>Lecturer in Political Theory
>University of Exeter
>Exeter EX4 4RJ
>United Kingdom
>Web page: http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/politics/staff/widder/
>Genealogies of Difference: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s02/widder.html
>MA in Critical Global Studies:
>http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/school/ma/global.php
--
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Institutionen för Lärarutbildning/Dept of teacher education
Uppsala Universitet/Uppsala University
Box 2136
750 02 Uppsala
Seminariegatan 1
Sweden
+46 (0)18-471 2463
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>>2. The Categories of Aristotle is criticized in D & R in a fashion
>>that I don't understand. Is the problem that Substance is a category
>>in itself, as different from Being, but that every other of the 9
>>also must partake in that's the problem ? And if the mistake is so
>>great, why has not philosophy in general been enlightened ? And how
>>is Difference In itself supposed to become a Catgegory or something
>>similar to it...?
>>
>
>Aristotle says that substance is one of the 10 categories of being, but he
>also says that being is not a genus, so that the 10 categories do not share a
>common identity. He also, however, says that being qua being is substance, as
>only substance exists by virtue of itself, while the other categories -- i.e.,
>quality, quantity -- exist by virtue of existing in substances. It's this
>last idea that leads to the analogical conception of being -- substance is the
>primary meaning of being, and other categories have a being that is only
>analogous to the being of substance.
ok, but how come not all philosophers have noticed this before
deleuze in 1968 ?
>
>That is one aspect of the criticism in D&R, there are also problems Deleuze
>notes that the conception of being as substance, insofar as substance refers
>to form, confuses the concept of difference with those differences compatible
>with the concept (that is, compatible with identity). Here, Aristotle's
>differentia are contraries, and contraries are treated as the maximum form of
>difference, but as Deleuze notes contrariety is maximum only with respect to
>essence.
>
Hmm. sorry I can't follow, could you give an example (have't read
your book print yet.)
^/JAn, thankful for all topics on D & R
>
>Nathan
>
>Dr. Nathan Widder
>Lecturer in Political Theory
>University of Exeter
>Exeter EX4 4RJ
>United Kingdom
>Web page: http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/politics/staff/widder/
>Genealogies of Difference: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s02/widder.html
>MA in Critical Global Studies:
>http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/school/ma/global.php
--
Jan Sjunnesson
Institutionen för Lärarutbildning/Dept of teacher education
Uppsala Universitet/Uppsala University
Box 2136
750 02 Uppsala
Seminariegatan 1
Sweden
+46 (0)18-471 2463
fax - 2400
mobil 0704/ 250536