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Aristotle's Metaphysics Alpha

Symposium Aristotelicum

Autor: Oliver Primavesi

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Editura: Oxford University Press

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The volumes of the 'Symposium Aristotelicum' have become obligatory reference works for Aristotle st...

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Autor

Oliver Primavesi

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2012

Pagini

552

EAN

9780199639984

ISBN

0199639981

Enbook ID

04534228

Editura

Oxford University Press

Greutate

974

Dimensiuni

162 x 239 x 35

Descriere completă

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.