Product Description: Grace a une nouvelle collation rigoureuse et complete des trois plus anciens temoins de la tradition manuscrite: J, E et Ab, l'edition par Myriam Hecquet-Devienne de Metaphysique Gamma corrige la vulgate imprimee. Le temoignage des lemmes et citations du commentaire d'Alexandre d'Aphrodise est egalement rectifie sur la base des manuscrits L et A...read more

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Product Description: The first volume in a new series that presents original texts by G.W. Leibniz accompanied by English translations on the facing pages. This book presents a selection of 25 papers written by Leibniz early in his career to clarify in his own mind his thoughts on some major philosophical issues...read more

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Product Description: An Introduction to the Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas is an accessible Aquinas and a solid entry into his work. The format is manageable, and the scope, appropriately limited. James F. Anderson's skillful collection and lucid translation makes the pleasure of reading Aquinas available as it has not been before...read more

This book begins with standard ontological topics--such as the nature of existence--and of metaphysics generally, such as the status of universals, form, and accidents. What is the proper subject matter of metaphysical speculation? Are essence and existence really distinct in bodies? Does the body lose its unifying form at death? Can an accident of a substance exist in separation from that substance? Are universals real, and, if so, are they anything more than general concepts? Among the figures it examines are Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Walter Chatton, John Buridan, Dietrich of Freiburg, Robert Holcot, Walter Burley, and the 11th-century Islamic philosopher Ibn-Sina (Avicenna).There is also an emphasis on metaphysics broadly conceived. Thus, additional discussions of connected topics in medieval logic, epistemology, and language provide a fuller account of the range of ideas included in the later medieval worldview.

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This authoritative translation by John Cottingham of the Meditations is taken from the much acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings of Descartes. It is based on the best available texts and presents Descartes' central metaphysical writings in clear, readable modern English.

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This extraordinary text totally paved the way for the rest of Western metaphysics. Metaphysics is a lucid text, though still difficult because of the complexity of the ideas. In it, Aristotle posits his famous causes of being, material, formal, efficient, final. And he conceptualizes the criteria for essence. There is almost no way to master the contents of this body of work, it has challenged the greatest thinkers ever since its rediscovery and will continue to astound and mystify for as long as it continues to exist.

Product Description: Now available for the first time in English, this critical translation of Metaphysica draws from the original seven Latin editions, the Academy edition of Kant, and Georg Friedrich Meier's 18th-century German translation. To assist and support the reading of this crucial text, the translation features: * historical and philosophical introductions and sketches * extensive glossaries and notes* clear reproductions of Kant's elucidations and handwritten notes* Eberhard's insertions in the 1783 German editionUsed as a philosophical instruction for thinkers such as Kant, Mendelssohn, Abbt, Herder, and Maimon, Metaphysica is arguably one of philosophy's most influential texts...read more

Product Description: Metaphysics is the study of existence at the highest level of generality. It is traditionally characterised as the study of "being qua being" - of being in general rather than specifically of this or that sort. Accordingly, the salient task of the field is to achieve a clearer understanding of the concepts and principles of being, existence, and reality...read more

Product Description: The books translated in this volume are the fourth, fifth and sixth in the traditional ordering of Aristotle's "Metaphysics". The nature and scope of metaphysics are discussed in the fourth and fifth volumes. A subtle examination of the principles of non-contradiction and excluded middle occupies the latter part of the fourth book...read more

This volume contains a close translation, suitable for students without a knowledge of Greek, of the 7th and 8th books of Aristotle's "Metaphysics", together with a philosophical commentary. In these books, Aristotle discusses the nature of perceptible reality.