Eleven scholars present a comprehensive study of the first book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. This is a key text for the reconstruction of the early history of Greek philosophy, and sets the agenda for Aristotle's project of wisdom. Included is a new edition of the Greek text, and an introduction which examines its divergent traditions.

• List Of Participants


• ESSAYS


• 1: Giuseppe Cambiano: The Desire to Know (Metaphysics A 1)


• 2: Sarah Broadie: A Science of First Principles (Metaphysics A 2)


• 3: Rachel Barney: History and Dialectic (Metaphysics A 3, 983a24-4b8)


• 4: Gábor Betegh: 'The Next Principle' (Metaphysics A 3-4, 984b8-985b22)


• 5: Malcolm Schofield: Pythagoreanism: emerging from the Presocratic fog (Metaphysics A 5)


• 6: Carlos Steel: Plato as seen by Aristotle (Metaphysics A 6)


• 7: Stephen Menn: Critique of Earlier Philosophers on the Good and the Causes (Metaphysics A 7-A 8 989a18)


• 8: Oliver Primavesi: Second thoughts on some Presocratics (Metaphysics A 8, 989a18-990a32)


• 9: Dorothea Frede: The Doctrine of Forms under Critique (Metaphysics A 9, 990a33-991b9)


• 10: Michel Crubellier: The Doctrine of Forms under Critique (Metaphysics A 9, 991b9 - 993a10)


• 11: John M. Cooper: Conclusion - and Retrospect (Metaphysics A 10)


• Bibliography


• EDITION


• A Revised Text of Metaphysics


• Text of Metaphysics


• INDEXES


• Index locorum


• Index of Modern Names


• Subject Index

Carlos Steel is emeritus Professor for ancient and medieval philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leuven and director of the international project 'Aristoteles Latinus'. Steel has devoted most of his research to the study of the Platonic tradition from late antiquity to Ficino with a particular emphasis on the philosophy of Proclus. He is the editor of Proclus' commentary on the Parmendes in Oxford Classical Studies and different volumes in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series
Oliver Primavesi holds the chair of Greek (I) at the University of Munich. His research has been devoted mainly to Aristotle and to the Presocratics, in particular to Empedocles. His books include Die Aristotelische Topik (1996) and Empedokles: Physika I (2008). He has co-authored, with A. Martin, LEmpédocle de Strasbourg (1999) and with J. Mansfeld, Die Vorsokratiker Griechisch/Deutsch (2011); and has edited, with K. Luchner, The Presocratics from the Latin Middle Ages to Hermann Diels (2011).