Concept
Genus (philosophy)
Overview
class of entities divided into subordinate species (logic)
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This realization goes right through the opposition; the negative in the universal is just this process. The genus sets itself in a state of opposition as individual and universal, and thus, in what lives, the genus realizes itself in the opposition of races which are opposed, but whose principle is the universal genus. They, as individuals, aim at their own self-preservation as individuals in eating, drinking, &c…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Names Genus several times; states what Genus is.
But that is negatively opposed to a thing which is separated from the thing by an opposition which is limited to a denial of the quality; in this way, "to be wise," and "not to be wise." That is a genus which embraces several species, as "Cupidity." That is a species which is subordinate to a genus, as "Love," "Avarice." The Result is the ultimate termination of any business; in which it is a common inquiry, what…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
States what Genus is; names Genus several times.
But in neither way is God in a genus. That He cannot be a species of any genus may be shown in three ways. First, because a species is constituted of genus and difference. Now that from which the difference constituting the species is derived, is always related to that from which the genus is derived, as actuality is related to potentiality. For animal is derived from sensitive nature, by concretion as it were, for…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
Names Genus several times; states what Genus is.
Philosophers who discussed Genus (philosophy)
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Part of Philosophy of language.