Prioridade e substância na metafísica de Aristóteles

• Main Author: Lucas Angioni
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2010-04-01
• Series: DoisPontos
• Subjects: Ontology; Substance; Essentialism; Priority; Causality; Definition
• Online Access: http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/doispontos/article/view/14818/11757

My aim in this paper is to examine Aristotle’s notions of priority in order to determine which sort of priority he ascribes to substances. I try to show that we cannot accept the traditional idea that a substance’s priority must be understood as existential independence. Aristotle rather ascribes to substances a priority in terms of completion, as he ascribes to substances-of-something some specific sort of causal-explanatory priority. Besides that, Aristotle argues, against Platonism, that these two sorts of priority (completion priority and causal-explanatory priority) must be kept apart from each other in any successful ontology.