Being, essence, and substance in Plato and Aristotle

I. Plato.

Part I. "True being" or the idea. The meaning of Platonic "eidos"

Essence and language

Science and essence : "opinion" as the negative of science

Science and essence : right opinion as "intermediary"

Science and essence : the mathematical "intermediary"

Science and essence (conclusion) : the "terminus" of science : contemplation

Part II. The idea of being and non-being. The question of being in Parmenides

The success and failures of Platonism in the Sophist

The genesis of the sensible in the Timaeus

Part III. Being and the "divine". The problem of the "divine" and presocratic philosophy

The "divine" in Plato

II. Aristotle.

Part I. Being as being. The "genetic" interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics

Philosophy : its intention and its memory

Philosophy and its "aporias"

The object of "first philosophy"

Part II. Being and substance. Sensible substance : substance as substrate

Sensible substance (continued) : substance as form

Substance and the individual

"Separate" substance.