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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Aristotle

Aristotle
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Metaphysics: Part 3

Book Zeta The Nature Of Primary Being

Introduction:

In Book Zeta, Aristotle attempts to answer the most important question of
the Metaphysics: What is the nature of this being which is the basis of all
other being? What does it mean "to be"? This book is perhaps the most
difficult one in the Metaphysics to understand. Needless to say, there are
many interpretations that could be offered as to what the philosopher meant by
primary being, or ousia, but only one of them is given here. Although
Aristotle's discussion of being does not follow ...

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