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How Aristotle gets by in Metaphysics Zeta
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013)
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Frank A. Lewis presents a close study of book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, one of his most dense and controversial texts, commonly understood to contain his deepest thoughts on the definition of substance and related metaphysical issues. Lewis argues that Aristotle returns to the causal view of primary substance from his Posterior Analytics.
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Aristotle on the Positive Contributions of Zeta
In the first half of Eta 1, Aristotle reviews proceedings in Zeta preceding the successful causal definition of (primary) substance in Z17. Do the traditional candidates for the definition of substance, subject, essence, and universal, survive scrutiny in Zeta? Essences, even subjects, cou... see more
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