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Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought

The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are ultimately material. He argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms, and in so doing he probed some of the deepest questions of philosophy: What is existence? How is change possible? And are there certain things that must exist for anything else to exist at all? The seminal notions discussed in The Metaphysics - of 'substance' and associated concepts of matter and form, essence and accident, potentiality and actuality - have had a profound and enduring influence, and laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy.

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Table of Contents
The Metaphysics - Aristotle Translated with an Introduction by Hugh Lawson-Tancred

Preface
Introduction
THE METAPHYSICSBook Alpha
Book Alpha the Lesser
Book Beta
Book Gamma
Book Delta
Book Epsilon
Book Zeta
Book Eta
Book Theta
Book Iota
Book Kappa
Book Lambda
Book Mu
Book Nu
Bibliography

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 29 October 1998
      ISBN-13 9780140446197
      978-0140446197
      ISBN-10 0140446192
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought

      The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are ultimately material. He argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms, and in so doing he probed some of the deepest questions of philosophy: What is existence? How is change possible? And are there certain things that must exist for anything else to exist at all? The seminal notions discussed in The Metaphysics - of 'substance' and associated concepts of matter and form, essence and accident, potentiality and actuality - have had a profound and enduring influence, and laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy.

      In this edition

      Table of Contents
      The Metaphysics - Aristotle Translated with an Introduction by Hugh Lawson-Tancred

      Preface
      Introduction
      THE METAPHYSICSBook Alpha
      Book Alpha the Lesser
      Book Beta
      Book Gamma
      Book Delta
      Book Epsilon
      Book Zeta
      Book Eta
      Book Theta
      Book Iota
      Book Kappa
      Book Lambda
      Book Mu
      Book Nu
      Bibliography

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