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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.
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.
Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of
philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of
scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of
Socrates' thought 2,400 years after his death. Socrates' life,
philosophical activity, and death not only had a formative effect
on his follower Plato, and thus indirectly on almost the whole
course of Greek philosophy, but also represented a moral and
philosophical ideal which has been the inspiration, or the despair,
of many philosophers and other thinkers down to the present day.
The topics of the papers include Socratic method as portrayed by
Plato and by Xenophon; the notion of definition; Socrates'
intellectualist conception of ethics; famous arguments in the
Euthyphro and Crito, and a not-so famous argument in the Hippias
Major; and aspects of the later portrayal and reception of Socrates
as a philosophical and ethical exemplar--by Plato, the Sceptics,
and in the early Christian era. The collection demonstrates the
vitality as well as the diversity of Socratic studies, and will
interest many ancient philosophers, historians of philosophy, and
classicists.
Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of
philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of
scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of
Socrates' thought 2,400 years after his death. Socrates' life,
philosophical activity, and death not only had a formative effect
on his follower Plato, and thus indirectly on almost the whole
course of Greek philosophy, but also represented a moral and
philosophical ideal which has been the inspiration, or the despair,
of many philosophers and other thinkers down to the present day.
The topics of the papers include Socratic method as portrayed by
Plato and by Xenophon; the notion of definition; Socrates'
intellectualist conception of ethics; famous arguments in the
Euthyphro and Crito, and a not-so famous argument in the Hippias
Major; and aspects of the later portrayal and reception of Socrates
as a philosophical and ethical exemplar - by Plato, the Sceptics,
and in the early Christian era. The collection demonstrates the
vitality as well as the diversity of Socratic studies, and will
interest many ancient philosophers, historians of philosophy, and
classicists.
The Physics is one of Aristotle's masterpieces - a work of
extraordinary intellectual power which has had a profound influence
on the development of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, as
well as on the development of physics itself. This collection of
ten new essays by leading Aristotelian scholars examines a wide
range of issues in the Physics and related works, including method,
causation and explanation, chance, teleology, the infinite, the
nature of time, the critique of atomism, the role of mathematics in
Aristotle's physics, and the concept of self-motion. The essays
offer fresh approaches to Aristotle's work in these areas, and
important new interpretations of his thought. The book also
contains an extensive bibliography. This book is intended for
ancient philosophers, philosophers working on metaphysics and the
philosophy of science, classicists, and historians of science.
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