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Aristotle: Metaphysics : Book Iota, PDF eBook

Aristotle: Metaphysics : Book Iota PDF

Edited by Laura M. Castelli

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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. Laura M. Castelli presents a new translation and comprehensive commentary of the tenth book (Iota) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, which provides Aristotle's most systematic account of what it is for something to be one, what it is for something to be a unit of measurement, what contraries are, and what the function of contraries is in shaping the structure of reality into genera and species.

There are some objective difficulties in making sense of Iota as a part of theMetaphysics and as a piece of Aristotelian philosophy.

Castelli's Introduction tackles such general difficulties, while the commentary provides a detailed analysis of the arguments, of the more specific issues and of the philosophical points emerging from Aristotle's text.

The English translation, based on Ross' criticaledition, is meant as a tool for readers with or without knowledge of ancient Greek.

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