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Aristotle's Metaphysics Alpha - Symposium Aristotelicum (Hardcover, New)
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Aristotle's Metaphysics Alpha - Symposium Aristotelicum (Hardcover, New)
Series: Symposia Aristotelica
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The volumes of the 'Symposium Aristotelicum' have become obligatory
reference works for Aristotle studies. In this eighteenth volume a
distinguished group of scholars offers a chapter-by-chapter study
of the first book of the Metaphysics. Aristotle presents here his
philosophical project as a search for wisdom, which is found in the
knowledge of the first principles allowing us to explain whatever
exists. As he shows, earlier philosophers had been seeking such a
wisdom, though they had divergent views on what these first
principles were. Before Aristotle sets out his own views, he offers
a critical examination of his predecessors' views, ending up with a
lengthy discussion of Plato's doctrine of Forms. Book Alpha is not
just a fundamental text for reconstructing the early history of
Greek philosophy; it sets the agenda for Aristotle's own project of
wisdom on the basis of what he had learned from his predecessors.
The volume comprises eleven chapters, each dealing with a different
section of the text, and a new edition of the Greek text of
Metaphysics Alpha by Oliver Primavesi, based on an exhaustive
examination of the complex manuscript and indirect tradition. The
introduction to the edition offers new insights into the question
which has haunted editors of the Metaphysics since Bekker, namely
the relation between the two divergent traditions of the text.
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