Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Metaphysics 2&3

by Arthur Madigan and William E. Dooley

Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 consists of two chapters on methodology flanking an important discussion of the impossibility of infinite causal chains. The subject is vital for scientific method and for theological belief in a first cause and in a beginning of the universe. Philoponus later attacked Aristotle on this last point, but Alexander presents Aristotle's view in a most favourable light.
In Metaphysics 3, Aristotle sets out...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780934440
• ISBN13: 9781780934440
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"