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Metaphysics book5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Book 11 receives relatively little attention-three pages in the introduction, six in the commentary. A lengthy introduction does a good job of connecting book 3 to the rest of the Metaphysics. Madigan also provides a few pages of textual notes that, unlike the rest of the book, presuppose some knowledge of Greek. ![]() Like other volumes in the series, this one includes a literal translation followed by a line by line commentary that aims to explore different construals of Aristotle’s arguments and a glossary. Since there is no detailed and thorough study of book 3 in the recent literature, Madigan’s contribution is sorely needed and a worthy addition to the Clarendon Aristotle series. Book 3 has often been read as a merely historical record of that stage in his development when Aristotle personally struggled with Platonism, other philosophies, or his own earlier philosophy. Many of the problems Aristotle sets out here are not addressed explicitly elsewhere in the Metaphysics, their discussion in book 3 is inconclusive, and most seem today of little intrinsic interest on their own. Despite this warning, book 3 and its doublet, book 11.1–2, have received relatively little attention. ![]() In the first lines of Metaphysics 3, Aristotle argues that any progress in this discipline hinges on carefully working through the problems peculiar to it, the metaphysical aporiai and he devotes all of book 3 to drawing up these problems. ![]()
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