Aristotle Metaphysics Lambda

Author : Michael Frede,David Owain Maurice Charles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198237642

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Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda by Michael Frede,David Owain Maurice Charles Pdf

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 : Lindsay Judson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198833109

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Aristotle, Metaphysics Lambda by Lindsay Judson Pdf

The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues. The volumes in the series have been widely welcomed and favourably reviewed. Important new titles are being added to the series, and a number of well-established volumes are being reissued with revisions and/or supplementary material. Lindsay Judson provides a rigorous translation of the twelfth book (Lambda) of Aristotle's Metaphysics and a detailed philosophical commentary. Lambda is an outline for a much more extended work in metaphysics - or more accurately, since Aristotle does not use the term 'metaphysics', in what he calls 'first philosophy', the inquiry into 'the principles and causes of all things'. Aristotle discusses the principles of natural and changeable substances, which include form, matter, privation and efficient cause; he argues that principles of this sort are, at least by analogy, the principles of non-substantial items as well. In the second half of the book he turns to unchanging, immaterial substances, first arguing that there must be at least one such substance, which he calls 'God', to act as the 'prime unmoved mover', the source of all change in the natural world. He then explores the nature of God and its activity of thinking (it is the fullest exposition there is of Aristotle's extraordinary and very difficult conception of his supreme god, its goodness, and its activity), and in the course of arguing for a plurality of immaterial unmoved movers he provides important evidence for the leading astronomical theory of his day (by Eudoxus) and for his own highly impressive cosmology. The commentary on each chapter or pair of chapters is preceded by a Prologue, which sets the scene for Aristotle's often very compressed discussion, and explores the general issues raised by that discussion. The Introduction discusses the place of Lambda in the Metaphysics, and offers a solution to the problem of the unity of Aristotle's project in the book.

Author : Christoph Horn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501503443

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Aristotle’s "Metaphysics" Lambda – New Essays by Christoph Horn Pdf

The treatise known as book Lambda of Aristotle’s Metaphysics has become one of the most debated issues of recent scholarship. Aristotle adresses here fundamental questions of his theory of substance, his idea of causes and principles, and his concept of motions. Furthermore, the importance of the text is due to the fact that it contains an outline of what was traditionally understood as Aristotle’s theology.

Author : Stefan Alexandru
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004258877

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Aristotle’s Metaphysics Lambda by Stefan Alexandru Pdf

In this annotated critical edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Lambda Stefan Alexandru draws upon many hitherto unexplored sources of the direct and indirect tradition, inter alia upon an independent Greek manuscript he has discovered in the Vatican Library.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199682980

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Metaphysics by Aristotle Pdf

Laura Castelli presents a new translation of the tenth book (Iota) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, together with a comprehensive commentary. Castelli's commentary helps readers to understand Aristotle's most systematic account of what it is for something to be one, what it is for something to be a unit of measurement, and what contraries are.

Author : Carlos Steel,Oliver Primavesi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 019874417X

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Aristotle's Metaphysics Alpha by Carlos Steel,Oliver Primavesi Pdf

"The 18th Symposium Aristotelicum, dedicated to the first Book of Aristotle's Metaphysics, was held in Leuven from 7th to 13th July 2008."--Pref.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198751076

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Aristotle: Metaphysics Theta by Aristotle Pdf

"This addition to the Clarendon Aristotle series comprises a new translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Book [Theta], an introduction to the basic notions and problems around which the book is structured, and a detailed chapter-by-chapter critical commentary. Makin's aim throughout is to present Aristotle's text in as accessible a manner as possible, and to encourage and enable readers to engage critically with Aristotle's arguments. Metaphysics Book [Theta] is an extended discussion of the distinction between the actual and the potential, a distinction which is important both for Aristotle's own thought and for later philosophers. Aristotle starts by considering the relation between capacities and changes, and then expands his discussion to cover the notions of matter and substance, which are at the heart of his ontology. Among the topics covered in detail in the commentary are the distinctions between two-way and one-way capacities, and between rational and non-rational capacities; arguments against reductive views of possibility and impossibility; Aristotle's treatment of capacity identity and his account of the exercise of capacities; Aristotle's answer to the question 'what is it to be potentially such and such?'; his defence of the idea that actuality is prior in various ways to potentiality; and his brief comments on the evaluation of potentialities and actualities, the role of the actual-potential distinction in geometrical knowledge, and his treatment of truth and falsity."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015032629829

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Metaphysics by Aristotle Pdf

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 : Michel Crubellier,André Laks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199546770

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Aristotle's Metaphysics Beta by Michel Crubellier,André Laks Pdf

In this volume, nine leading scholars of ancient philosophy offer a systematic study of Book Beta of Aristotle's Metaphysics. They work through a series of problems which Aristotle presents, discussing such topics as causation, substance, properties, & the ontology of both the perishable & the imperishable world.

Author : Michael Frede,David Charles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 1383012539

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Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda by Michael Frede,David Charles Pdf

A group of scholars of ancient philosophy here presents a systematic study of the twelfth book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Book Lambda was chosen as the focus of the 14th Symposium Aristotelicum, from which this volume derives.

Author : Katerina Ierodiakonou,Paul Kalligas,Vassilis Karasmanis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192566713

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Aristotle's Physics Alpha by Katerina Ierodiakonou,Paul Kalligas,Vassilis Karasmanis Pdf

The volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this nineteenth volume, eleven distinguished scholars of ancient philosophy provide a running commentary on the first book of Aristotle's Physics, a central treatise of the Aristotelian corpus that aims at knowledge of the principles of physical change. Along with the general introduction, the ten chapters together comment on the entirety of the Aristotelian text and discuss the philosophical issues that are raised in it in detail. Aristotle is shown to be in dialogue with the divergent doctrines of earlier philosophers, namely with the Eleatics' monism, with Anaxagoras' theory of mixture, and finally with the Platonist dyadism that posits the two principles of Form and the Great and Small. Aristotle uses critical examination of his predecessors' views as the basis for formulating his own theory of the principles of natural things, which are fundamental for the entire Aristotelian study of the natural world. He provides his own solution to the problem of coming-to-be and passing-away by distinguishing between coming in actuality and in potentiality. Comprehensive analysis of Aristotle's doctrines and arguments, as well as critical discussion of rival interpretations, will make this volume a valuable resource for scholars of Aristotle.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066465797

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On Sense and the Sensible by Aristotle Pdf

"On Sense and the Sensible" by Aristotle (translated by John Isaac Beare). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141912011

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The Metaphysics by Aristotle Pdf

The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hardheaded view that all processes are ultimately material. He argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms, and in so doing he probed some of the deepest questions of philosophy: What is existence? How is change possible? And are there certain things that must exist for anything else to exist at all? The seminal notions discussed in The Metaphysics - of 'substance' and associated concepts of matter and form, essence and accident, potentiality and actuality - have had a profound and enduring influence, and laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy.

Author : Leo Elders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 9023209788

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Aristotle's Theology by Leo Elders Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840330

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Classical Arabic Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

This volume introduces the major classical Arabic philosophers through substantial selections from the key works (many of which appear in translation for the first time here) in each of the fields--including logic, philosophy of science, natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and politics--to which they made significant contributions. An extensive Introduction situating the works within their historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts offers support to students approaching the subject for the first time, as well as to instructors with little or no formal training in Arabic thought. A glossary, select bibliography, and index are also included.