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1998, Penguin Books
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The metaphysics of Aristotle: translated from the Greek, with copious notes, in which the Pythagoric and Platonic dogmas respecting numbers and ideas are unfolded from antient sources. To which is added, a dissertation on nullities and diverging series...
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Table of Contents

Preface (p. 3)
Introduction: I. Life of Aristotle (p. 13)
Introduction: II. The Metaphysics (p. 17)
Introduction: III. Historical Value of Aristotle's Criticism (p. 29)
Summary (p. 45)
Chronological Table of the Pre-Aristotelian Philosophers Referred to in Metaphysics (p. 58)
Book of Reference (p. 60)
Aristotle on his Predecessors:
Chapter I: The Origin of Knowledge and Wisdom (Philosophy) (p. 67)
Chapter II: General Character of Wisdom (p. 72)
Chapter III: Four Kinds of Causes: A Review of Their Treatment in the Past (p. 78)
Chapter IV: Teleology and the Formative Principle (p. 86)
Chapter V: Mathematicians, Pythagoreans, and Eleatics (p. 91)
Chapter VI: The Peculiarities of Plato (p. 100)
Chapter VII: The Four Conceptions of Cause United in Aristotle (p. 105)
Chapter VIII: The Defects of the Pre-Aristotelian Systems
Chapter IX: A Criticism of Plato (p. 116)
Chapter X: Conclusion (p. 138)
Appendix A: On the cognition of Universal Axioms as a Product of Experience (p. 143)
Appendix B: The Four Senses of Cause (p. 149)
Appendix C: A Popular Resume of the Main Arguments Against the Platonic Ideas, with Special Reference to the "Idea of Good" (p. 153)
Appendix D: The Alleged Difficulty is the Connection of Mathematics with the Doctrine of Ideas (p. 153)
Index to Proper Names (p. 160)

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