An edition of La Poetica
(1479)
Aristotle on his predecessors
being the first book of his Metaphysics
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by Aristotle
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Table of Contents
Preface
Page 7
Introduction:
I.
Life of Aristotle
Page 13
II.
The Metaphysics
Page 17
III.
Historical value of Aristotle's criticism
Page 29
Summary
Page 45
Chronological table of Pre-Aristotilian philosophers reffered to in Metaphysics A
Page 58
Books of reference
Page 60
Aristotle on his predecessors:
Chapter I.
The origin of knowledge and wisdom (philosophy)
Page 67
Chapter II.
General character of wisdom
Page 72
Chapter III.
Four kinds of causes: A review of their treatment in the past
Page 78
Chapter IV.
Teleology and the formative principle
Page 86
Chapter V.
Mathematicians, Pythogareans, and Eleatics
Page 91
Chapter VI.
The peculiarities of Plato
Page 100
Chapter VII.
The four conceptions of cause united in Aristotle
Page 105
Chapter VIII.
The defects of the pre-Aristotelian systems
Page 108
Chapter IX.
A criticism of Plato
Page 116
Chapter X.
Conclusions
Page 138
Appendix A.
On the cognition of universal axioms, as a product of experience
Page 143
Appendix B.
The four senses of cause
Page 149
Appendix C.
A popular résumé of the main arguments against the Platonic ideas, with special reference to the "Idea of Good"
Page 153
Appendix D.
The alleged difficulty in the connection of mathematics with the doctrine of ideas
Page 155
Index to proper names
Page 160
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