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An edition of On Aristotle Metaphysics 2 & 3 (1992)

On Aristotle Metaphysics 2 & 3

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"Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 consists of two chapters on methodology flanking an important discussion of the impossibility of infinite causal chains. The subject is vital for scientific method and for theological belief in a first cause and in a beginning of the universe. Philoponus later attacked Aristotle on this last point, but Alexander presents Aristotle's view in a most favourable light. In Metaphysics 3, Aristotle sets out what he sees as the central problems of metaphysics. Alexander's commentary was subsequently used by the Neoplatonists, two of whom have left their own commentaries, so that Alexander's Aristotelian interpretation can be compared with its rivals."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 consists of two chapters on methodology flanking an important discussion of the impossibility of infinite causal chains. The subject is vital for scientific method and for theological belief in a first cause and in a beginning of the universe. Philoponus later attacked Aristotle on this last point, but Alexander presents Aristotle's view in a most favourable light. In Metaphysics 3, Aristotle sets out what he sees as the central problems of metaphysics. Alexander's commentary was subsequently used by the Neoplatonists, two of whom have left their own commentaries, so that Alexander's Aristotelian interpretation can be compared with its rivals.

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Duckworth
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242

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1992, Duckworth
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1992, Duckworth
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Translation of: In Aristotelis Metaphysica commentaria, books 2-3.

Includes bibliographical references.

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London
Series
Ancient commentators on Aristotle
Other Titles
On Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 and 3.

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242 p. --
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242

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Open Library
OL20221420M
Internet Archive
alexanderaphrodi00aphr
ISBN 10
0801427401
LCCN
88047752, 91041606
OCLC/WorldCat
18813940, 24796801
LibraryThing
781857
Goodreads
1435434

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OL1970912W

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