The Principles of Sensible Substance in Metaphysics Λ 2–5

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Contributors vii
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Who Wrote Alexander’s Commentary on Metaphysics Λ? New Light on the Syro-Arabic Tradition 11
7. The Program of Metaphysics Lambda (chapter 1) 67
8. The Principles of Sensible Substance in Metaphysics Λ 2–5 87
9. What the Form Has to Be and What It Needs not Be (Metaphysics, Λ 3) 119
10. Individuals, Form, Movement: From Lambda to Z–H 139
11. God as Pure Thinking. An Interpretation of Metaphysics Λ 7, 1072b14–26 157
12. Unmoved Mover as Pure Act or Unmoved Mover in Act? The Mystery of a Subscript Iota 181
13. The Causality of the Prime Mover in Metaphysics Λ 207
14. Aristotle’s Silence about the Prime Mover’s Noēsis 229
15. Cases of Celestial Teleology in Metaphysics Λ 247
16. The Unity of the World-order According to Metaphysics Λ 10 269
17. Indices 295