
Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda
Symposium Aristotelicum
Oxford University Press
Published on 7. December 2000
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-0-19-823764-8 (ISBN)
Description
A distinguished group of scholars of ancient philosophy here presents a systematic study of the twelfth book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Lambda, which can be regarded as a self-standing treatise on substance, has been attracting particular attention in recent years, and was chosen as the focus of the fourteenth Symposium Aristotelicum, from which this volume derives. At the Symposium, each of Lambda's ten chapters was taken in turn as the subject of a session at which a specially written paper was read to and discussed by the assembled symposiasts. (The ninth chapter commanded two sessions by dint of its particular difficulty.) The papers have been revised in the light of discussion, and are now offered to a wider audience as a discursive commentary on points of particular philosophical interest covering all of Lambda. Michael Frede's extensive Introduction aims to give a broader view of Lambda as a whole and the problems it raises, and thus to provide the context for the discussion of each of the chapters. This volume will be a resource of great value and interest for anyone working on ancient metaphysics and theology.
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... quite unthinkable that anyone would want to write about Lambda, or, indeed, about Metaphysics, without making constant use of this book. * Ancient Philosophy *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
734 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-823764-8 (9780198237648)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Michael Frede is Professor of the History of Philosophy at Oxford University, and David Charles is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oriel College, Oxford.
Editor
Professor of the History of PhilosophyProfessor of the History of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Fellow and Tutor in PhilosophyFellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Oriel College, Oxford
Content
INTRODUCTION: MICHAEL FREDE; CH. 1 MICHAEL FREDE; CH. 2 DAVID CHARLES; CH. 3 LINDSAY JUDSON; CH. 4 M. CRUBELLIER; CH. 5 ALAN CODE; CH. 6 ENRICO BERTI; CH. 7 ANDRE LAKS; CH. 8 G.E.R. LLOYD; CH. 9 JACQUES BRUNSCHWIG; CH. 10 ARYEH KOSMAN; CH. 11 DAVID SEDLEY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX