The Metaphysics

by Aristotle; Lawson-Tancred, Hugh; Lawson-Tancred, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780140446197
• ISBN10: 0140446192
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

Arthur Madigan presents a clear, accurate new translation of the third book (Beta) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, together with two related chapters from the eleventh book (Kappa). Madigan's accompanying commentary gives detailed guidance to these texts, in which Aristotle sets out what he takesto be the main problems of metaphysics or 'first philosophy' and assesses possible solutions to them.

Author Biography

Aristotle was born at Stageira, in the dominion of the kings of Macedonia, in 384 BC. For twenty years he studied at Athens in the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and, some time later, became tutor of the young Alexander the Great. When Alexander succeeded to the throne of Macedonia in 335, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his school and research institute, the Lyceum, to which his great erudition attracted a large number of scholars. After Alexander's death in 323, anti-Macedonian feeling drove Aristotle out of Athens, and he fled to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. His writings, which were of extraordinary range, profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy, and they are still eagerly studied and debated by philosophers today. Very many of them have survived and among the most famous are the Ethics and the Politics.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Note on Second Edition	p. vi
Metaphysics Book Gamma	p. x
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Metaphysics Book Delta	p. 27
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Metaphysics Book Epsilon	p. 66
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Notes	p. 75
Further Comments (1992)	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 227
Glossary	p. 239
Index Locorum	p. 241
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 251
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