Aristotle’s "Metaphysics" Lambda – New Essays

✍ Scribed by Christoph Horn (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Series: Philosophie der Antike; 33
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The treatise known as book Lambda of Aristotle’s Metaphysics has become one of the most debated issues of recent scholarship. Aristotle adresses here fundamental questions of his theory of substance, his idea of causes and principles, and his concept of motions. Furthermore, the importance of the text is due to the fact that it contains an outline of what was traditionally understood as Aristotle’s theology.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Who Wrote Alexander’s Commentary on Metaphysics Λ?
New Light on the Syro-Arabic Tradition
The Program of Metaphysics Lambda (chapter 1)
The Principles of Sensible Substance in Metaphysics
Λ 2–5
What the Form Has to Be and What It Needs not Be
(Metaphysics, Λ 3)
Individuals, Form, Movement: From Lambda to Z–H
God as Pure Thinking. An Interpretation of Metaphysics
Λ 7, 1072b14–26
Unmoved Mover as Pure Act or UnmovedMover in Act?
The Mystery of a Subscript Iota
The Causality of the Prime Mover in Metaphysics Λ
Aristotle’s Silence About the Prime Mover’s N
oēsis
Cases of Celestial Teleology in Metaphysics Λ
The Unity of the World-order According
to Metaphysics Λ 10
Indices
1. Index locorum
2. Index nominum
3. Index rerum