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Syrianus: On Aristotle Metaphysics 3-4 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Syrianus: On Aristotle Metaphysics 3-4 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Syrianus, originally from Alexandria, moved to Athens and became
the head of the Academy there after the death of Plutarch of
Athens. This discussion of Aristotle's Metaphysics 3-4 shows how
metaphysics, as a philosophical science, was conceived by the
Neoplatonic philosopher of Late Antiquity. The questions raised by
Aristotle in Metaphysics 3 regarding the scope of metaphysics are
answered by Syrianus, who also criticises the alternative answers
explored by Aristotle. In presenting Metaphysics 4, Syrianus
explains in what sense metaphysics deals with 'being as being' and
how this includes the essential attributes of being
(unity/multiplicity, sameness/difference, etc.), showing also that
it comes within the scope of metaphysics to deal with the primary
axioms of scientific thought, in particular the Principle of
Non-Contradiction, for which Syrianus provides arguments additional
to those developed by Aristotle. Syrianus thus reveals how
Aristotelian metaphysics was formalized and transformed by a
philosophy which found its deepest roots in Pythagoras and Plato.
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