Aristotle's Metaphysics Book Lambda Symposium Aristotelicum

by Frede, Michael; Charles, David

• ISBN13: 9780198237648
• ISBN10: 0198237642
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-19
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

A distinguished group of scholars of ancient philosophy here presents a systematic study of the twelfth book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. 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 focusof the fourteenth Symposium Aristotelicum, from which this volume derives. At the Symposium, each of Lambda's ten chapters was taken in turn as the subject of a session at which a specially written paper was read to and discussed by the assembled symposiasts. (The ninth chapter commanded twosessions by dint of its particular difficulty.) The papers have been revised in the light of discussion, and are now offered to a wider audience as a discursive commentary on points of particular philosophical interest covering all of Lambda. Michael Frede's extensive Introduction aims to give abroader view of Lambda as a whole and the problems it raises, and thus to provide the context for the discussion of each of the chapters. This volume will be a resource of great value and interest for anyone working on ancient metaphysics and theology.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(52)
Michael Frede
Metaphysics Λ 1	53	(28)
Michael Frede
Metaphysics Λ 2	81	(30)
David Charles
Metaphysics Λ 3	111	(26)
Lindsay Judson
Metaphysics Λ 4	137	(24)
Michel Crubellier
Metaphysics Λ 5	161	(20)
Alan Code
Metaphysics Λ 6	181	(26)
Enrico Berti
Metaphysics Λ 7	207	(38)
Andre Laks
Metaphysics Λ 8	245	(30)
G.E.R. Lloyd
Metaphysics Λ 9: A Short-Lived Thought-Experiment?	275	(32)
Jacques Brunschwig
Metaphysics Λ 9: Divine Thought	307	(20)
Aryeh Kosman
Metaphysics Λ 10	327	(24)
David Sedley
Bibliography	351	(8)
Index Locorum	359	(4)
Index Nominum	363	(2)
General Index	365