Metaphysics

by Aristotle, Arthur Madigan (Editor)

Overview

Arthur Madigan presents a clear, accurate new translation of the third book (Beta) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, together with two related chapters from the eleventh book (Kappa). Madigan's accompanying commentary gives detailed guidance to these texts, in which Aristotle sets out what he takes to be the main problems of metaphysics or 'first philosophy' and assesses possible solutions to them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198751069
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/09/2000
Series:	Clarendon Aristotle Series
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.46(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Arthur Madigan, S.J., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Translation; Commentary; Notes on the Text and Translation; Bibliography; Glossaries; Indexes.

Editorial Reviews

"Madigan's volume accomplishes what it aims to do...with its close and careful consideration of the text and its many new proposals for reading specific passages, this volume will be greatly appreciated by those undertaking their own serious study..."—The Review of Metaphysics

From the Publisher

"The translator is to be commended for the scholarly and painstaking service which he has rendered to one of the great philosophic masterpieces of all times."
—Paul Helsel

Paul Helsel

"Mr. Hope translates every term in as many ways as are required by different contexts and by Aristotle's own intended meanings, thereby producing a version that is immeasurably more intelligible than one based on the assumption that every Greek word must be rendered by a single English equivalent."
—Ben Ray Redman

Ben Ray Redman