Research Catalog

Title

Metaphysics. Book lambda / translated with an introduction and commentary by Lindsay Judson.

Author

Aristotle

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Judson, Lindsay

Description

xii, 420 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"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.0Lindsay 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."--

Series Statement

Clarendon Aristotle series

Uniform Title

• Metaphysics. Book 12. English
• Clarendon Aristotle series.

Alternative Title

Metaphysics. Book 12.

Subject

• Aristotle
• Aristotle. > Criticism, Textual
• Metaphysics (Aristotle)
• Metaphysics > Early works to 1800
• Metaphysics

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Early works.

Note

• Commentary on Book 12 of Aristotle's Metaphysics.
• Title on resource uses the Greek character lambda.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-398) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Call Number

JFD 19-3723

ISBN

• 0198833113
• 9780198833116
• 9780198833109
• 0198833105

OCLC

1061779037

Author

Aristotle, author.

Title

Metaphysics. Book lambda / translated with an introduction and commentary by Lindsay Judson.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Clarendon Aristotle series

Clarendon Aristotle series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-398) and index.

Language

Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Added Author

Judson, Lindsay, translator, writer of introduction.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-3723