![]() ![]() Joseph Owens, C.Ss.R., was professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Toronto and professor emeritus at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies. ![]() It will serves as an excellent introduction to one of the most influential interpretations of the Aristotelian metaphysical tradition of the past century. ![]() Gerson, includes a complete bibliography of Owens’s writings as well as works critical of Owens’s readings of ancient and medieval philosophers. This monograph, edited by Owens’s colleague and former pupil, Lloyd P. He discusses the many facets of the Aristotelian notion of “form,” including its role in a realistic epistemology. Owens writes extensively of the different but complimentary approaches of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. Some fifty years after his groundbreaking book The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics, Owens turned again to consider the central themes in Aristotle’s conception of a science of being or “first philosophy.” Reflecting on a half-century of scholarship, and drawing on his own extensive publications in Greek and medieval philosophy, Owens sets forth in a step-by-step meticulous argument his own interpretation of Aristotle’s account of substance, essence, and the gradations of being. ![]() Gradations of Being was edited from the papers of Joseph Owens. Aristotle's Gradations of Being in Metaphysics E-Z Owens, Joseph, C.Ss.R. ![]()
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