On the Several Senses of Being in Aristotle

Franz Brentano

University of California Press

1976

197 páginas

6h 34m

ISBN-10: 0520023463

This is Brentano's doctoral dissertation and his first book. In it he contemplates the several senses of "being", using Aristotle as his guide. He finds that (in Aristotle's view) being in the sense of the categories, in particular substantial being, is the most basic; all other modes, potential and actual being, being in the sense of the true, etc., stand to it in a relation of well-founded analogy. Many of his mature views are prepared in this work. For exemple his discussion of being in the sense of being true appears to be the foundation of his later nonpropositional theory of judgment.