Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics

ISBN-13: 9780415251471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 360 str.

Vasilis Politis; Vasilis Politis

Opis

Metaphysics is a benchmark in the history of philosophy. This book introduces and assesses Aristotle's life and the background to the Metaphysics, the ideas and text of the Metaphysics and Aristotle's philosophical legacy.

Spis treści

1. Aristotle's Metaphysics  2. Metaphysics as the Science of the Ultimate Explanations of all Things  3. Metaphysics as the Science of Being, Qua Being, Primary being and Non-Primary Being  4. The Principle of Non-Contradiction  5. The Search for Primary Being  6. The First Cause of Change, God  7. The Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms

O autorze

Vasilis Politis is lecturer of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.