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Aristotle, Metaphysics Lambda (Paperback)
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Aristotle, Metaphysics Lambda (Paperback)
Series: Clarendon Aristotle Series
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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.
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