Philosophy of Religion Research

Problems of Book III (B) of Aristotle’s Metaphysics: A way to Uderstanding the Structure of Metaphysics

Document Type : Original Research

Author

PhD student of Philosophy of Art, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

One of the difficulties of understanding and commentating on Aristotle’s “Metaphysics” is understanding the structure of it. While ancient commentator of metaphysics regarded it as one collection that have Coherent structure, most of the modern commentators on Aristotle hold that this collection does not have unity and its topics, specially topic of ontology in middle books and topic of theology in final books, do not have philosophical consistency with each other. In this essay, based on problems of book III (B), which can be regarded as Metaphysics’ table of contents, it is tried to offer a theory about structure of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and to criticize different theories in this matter.

Keywords

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Philosophy of Religion Research
Volume 2, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
May 2004
Pages 71-92