A distinguished group of scholars of ancient philosophy here presents a systematic study of the twelfth book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Book Lambda, which can be regarded as a self-standing treatise on substance, has been attracting particular attention in recent years, and was chosen as the focus of the fourteenth Symposium Aristotelicum, from which this volume is derived.
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Michael Frede is Professor of the History of Philosophy at Oxford University, and David Charles is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oriel College, Oxford.
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Scholars nowadays tend to agree that Metaphysics A originally was written by Aristotle as an independent treatise, just as it seems fairly obvious that originally the books Z and H were written as the beginning of a new, independent treatise, rather than as a continuation of a series of books beginning with Metaphysics A. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eternal sensible substances, intellect intelligizes, unmovable substances, unmovable mover, topical matter, chance generations, perishable substances, third aporia, first aporia, technical generations, intellective activity, perceptible substances, extra spheres, first unmoved mover, genetic matter, pure actuality, moving cause, potential intellect, relevant saying, first intelligible, certain characteristic ways, moved movers, composite substances, eternal movement, productive cause Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Platonic Forms, Michael Frede, Myles Burnyeat, David Charles, Eudemian Ethics, Perfection Principle, Enrico Berti, Dirine Thought, John Cooper, Milky Way New!
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Scholars nowadays tend to agree that Metaphysics A originally was written by Aristotle as an independent treatise, just as it seems fairly obvious that originally the books Z and H were written as the beginning of a new, independent treatise, rather than as a continuation of a series of books beginning with Metaphysics A. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eternal sensible substances, intellect intelligizes, unmovable substances, unmovable mover, topical matter, chance generations, perishable substances, third aporia, first aporia, technical generations, intellective activity, perceptible substances, extra spheres, first unmoved mover, genetic matter, pure actuality, moving cause, potential intellect, relevant saying, first intelligible, certain characteristic ways, moved movers, composite substances, eternal movement, productive cause Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Platonic Forms, Michael Frede, Myles Burnyeat, David Charles, Eudemian Ethics, Perfection Principle, Enrico Berti, Dirine Thought, John Cooper, Milky Way New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Eudemian Ethics: Books I, II, and VIII (Clarendon Aristotle) (Bks.1, 2 & 8) by Aristotle on 7 pages
- Aristotle on Substance by Mary Louise Gill on page 113, page 120, and Back Matter
- Articles on Aristotle, Vol. 3 by Jonathan Barnes in Back Matter
- Magna Moralia (Spanish Edition) by Aristotle on page 305
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on page 311
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