Aristotle. Metaphysics: Book B and Book K 1-2.(Book Review)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20031201
Author:Hapler, Edward C.

Translated with Commentary by Arthur Madigan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. x1 + 185 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95--In the first lines of Metaphysics 3, Aristotle argues that any progress in this discipline hinges on carefully working through the problems peculiar to it, the metaphysical aporiai; and he devotes all of book 3 to drawing up these problems. Despite this warning, book 3 and its doublet, book 11.1-2, have received relatively little attention. Many of the problems Aristotle sets out here are not addressed explicitly elsewhere in the Metaphysics, their discussion in ...

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