Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics

Informationen zum Autor Vasilis Politis is lecturer of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. Klappentext "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. Zusammenfassung This GuideBook looks at the Metaphysics thematically and takes the student through the main arguments found in the text. The book introduces and assesses Aristotle's life and the background to the Metaphysics, its ideas and text. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Vasilis Politis, Politis Vasilis
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 19.02.2004
• EAN: 9780415251471
• ISBN: 978-0-415-25147-1
• Seiten: 360
• Serie: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation