TY - BOOK ID - 77863712 TI - Metaphysics. AU - Aristotle. AU - Bostock, David. PY - 1994 SN - 1280809132 0191586722 0585160058 9780191586729 9780585160054 9780198239475 0198239475 0198239467 0198239475 9780198239468 9786610809134 6610809135 9781280809132 PB - Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Metaphysics KW - Early works to 1800. KW - Metaphysics - Early works to 1800. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77863712 AB - The books translated in this volume are seventh and eighth in the traditional ordering of Aristotle's Metaphysics. They are central to Aristotle's metaphysical system: in them he discusses the nature of perceptible 'substance' or reality. In particular, he compares the claims of matter and of form to be the basic reality of things, and he frequently contrasts his own view of form with the Platonic view. Several other topics are treated which are of central importance to his metaphysics, e.g. the notions of essence and definition, the status of universals, and the concept of a unity. David Bostock provides an authoritative guide to these difficult and important books, assuming no knowledge of Greek on the part of the reader. He offers a clear new translation that follows the original closely, and a thorough and careful philosophical commentary. ER -