Aristotle's Metaphysics. Two volumes.; A revised text with introduction and commentary by W. D. Ross

Aristotle

ISBN 10: 0198141076 / ISBN 13: 9780198141075

Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1988

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This is the 1988 reprint of the revised edition. Ink name and date in both volumes, volume two has a faint moisture stain on the bottom edge else both volumes are in very good condition with no markings and without dust jackets.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aristotle's Metaphysics. Two volumes.; A revised text with introduction and commentary by W. D. Ross
• Publisher: Oxford at the Clarendon Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198141076
• ISBN 13: 9780198141075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

This work has been written from the conviction that general statements about the philosophical position taken by Theophrastus in this small, but extremely difficult treatise, can only be made on the basis of a detailed interpretation of each and every sentence of the text. This has resulted in a full commentary which evades no philological or philosophical question that should be asked in order to elicit from the text a maximum of information. The outcome is a cautious but nonetheless explicit and dterminate characterization and evaluation of Theophrastean metaphysics as a biologists' metaphysics, which derserves the attention of philosophers in its own right. The author has paid special attention to questions of Peripatetic idiom and terminology, thus increasing the value of this book to students of Peripatetic thought in general. The information brought together has been made easily accessible by full indexes.