The Greatest Books of All Time on Hylomorphism
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Hylomorphism, as a book category, gathers works that explore the idea that things are composed of matter (what they are made of) and form (the organizing structure that makes them what they are). It includes classical Aristotelian and Thomistic texts, contemporary “neo-Aristotelian” metaphysics on substance, identity, causation, potentiality and actuality, and interdisciplinary studies in philosophy of mind and biology on embodiment, organism, and teleology. It also covers inquiries into morphogenesis, information and pattern, design theory, and the relation of form to content in art and literature, as well as fiction that dramatizes soul–body unity or structure–substrate dependence. In short, this category collects rigorous and creative treatments of how organization and material together determine what things are and what they can do.
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