Aristotle on his predecessors
Subtitle: being the first book of his Metaphysics.
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co.
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Metaphysics; Philosophy, Ancient
Work titles: Metaphysics Book 1
Table of contents: title: Preface (p. 3); title: Introduction: I. Life of Aristotle (p. 13); title: Introduction: II. The Metaphysics (p. 17); title: Introduction: III. Historical Value of Aristotle's Criticism (p. 29); title: Summary (p. 45); title: Chronological Table of the Pre-Aristotelian Philosophers Referred to in Metaphysics (p. 58); title: Book of Reference (p. 60); title: Aristotle on his Predecessors:; title: Chapter I: The Origin of Knowledge and Wisdom (Philosophy) (p. 67); title: Chapter II: General Character of Wisdom (p. 72); title: Chapter III: Four Kinds of Causes: A Review of Their Treatment in the Past (p. 78); title: Chapter IV: Teleology and the Formative Principle (p. 86); title: Chapter V: Mathematicians, Pythagoreans, and Eleatics (p. 91); title: Chapter VI: The Peculiarities of Plato (p. 100); title: Chapter VII: The Four Conceptions of Cause United in Aristotle (p. 105); title: Chapter VIII: The Defects of the Pre-Aristotelian Systems; title: Chapter IX: A Criticism of Plato (p. 116); title: Chapter X: Conclusion (p. 138); title: Appendix A: On the cognition of Universal Axioms as a Product of Experience (p. 143); title: Appendix B: The Four Senses of Cause (p. 149); title: Appendix C: A Popular Resume of the Main Arguments Against the Platonic Ideas, with Special Reference to the "Idea of Good" (p. 153); title: Appendix D: The Alleged Difficulty is the Connection of Mathematics with the Doctrine of Ideas (p. 153); title: Index to Proper Names (p. 160)