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Translated with an Introduction and Commentary
Aristotle
Stephen Makin
ISBN: 9780198751083
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Edition: illustrated edition
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Presents translation of an influential and much-discussed part of Aristotle's philosophical system, accompanied by an analytical and critical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. This book introduces the concepts of actuality and potentiality - which were to remain central to philosophical analysis into the modern era.
Stephen Makin presents a clear and accurate new translation of an influential and much-discussed part of Aristotle's philosophical system, accompanied by an analytical and critical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. In Book Theta of the Metaphysics Aristotle introduces the concepts of actuality and potentiality---which were to remain central to philosophical analysis into the modern era---and explores the distinction between the actual and the potential.
| ISBN | 0198751087 | | Pages | 332 | | ISBN13 | 9780198751083
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 458 | | Imprint | Clarendon Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Clarendon Aristotle Series | | Publication date | 31 Aug 2006 | | Height (mm) | 215 | | Library of Congress | 2006299714 | | Width (mm) | 139 | | DEWEY | 110 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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Professor Makin has produced a great deal of substantive material that deserves consideration, and readers who work through his book will be grateful for his rewarding effort to elucidate this difficult text. Bryn Mawr Reviews  Be the first to write a customer review
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