Table Of ContentAristotle’s Metaphysics Lambda – New Essays
Philosophie der Antike
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Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Lambda – New Essays
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Contents
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
CHRISTOPH HORN
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
MATTEO DI GIOVANNI and OLIVER PRIMAVESI
Who Wrote Alexander’s Commentary on Metaphysics Λ? New Light
on the Syro-Arabic Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
ENRICO BERTI
The Program of Metaphysics Lambda (chapter 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
CHRISTOF RAPP
The Principles of Sensible Substance in Metaphysics Λ2–5 . . . . . . . . 87
MICHEL CRuBELLIER
What the Form Has to Be and What It Needs not Be
(Metaphysics, Λ 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
MARCO ZINGANO
Individuals, Form, Movement: From Lambda to Z–H . . . . . . . . . . . 139
STEPHAN HERZBERG
God as Pure Thinking. An Interpretation of Metaphysics Λ7,
1072b14–26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
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SILVIA FAZZO
Unmoved Mover as Pure Act or Unmoved Mover in Act? The Mystery
of a Subscript Iota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
ALBERTO ROSS
The Causality of the Prime Mover in Metaphysics Λ . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
MARIA LIATSI
Aristotle’s Silence About the Prime Mover’s noe¯sis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
ISTVÁN BODNÁR
Cases of Celestial Teleology in Metaphysics Λ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
CHRISTOPH HORN
The Unity of the World-order According to Metaphysics Λ10 . . . . . 269
Indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
1. Index locorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
2. Index nominum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
3. Index rerum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
List of Contributors
Enrico Berti is Professor emeritus of Philosophy at the Università di Padova.
In his scholarly career, he published dozens of monographs on Aristotle, in-
cluding La filosofia del primo Aristotele (1962), Aristotele. Dalla dialettica
alla filosofia prima (1977) and Dialectique, physique et métaphysique. Étu-
des sur Aristote (2008).
István Bodnár is Professor of Philosophy at Eötvös University, Budapest,
teachingalsoatCentralEuropeanUniversity.Asauthor,editorandtranslator
he publishedseveral monographs,for example Eudemusof Rhodes(with W.
W. Fortenbaugh, 2002) and Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.1–5 (with M.
Chase and M. Share, 2014).
Michel Crubellier is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Université
Lille 3 and the former Vice-President of the University. His research bears
mainlyonAristotle’sphilosophyofknowledge,logic,psychologyandnatural
philosophy. He has published Aristote: Le philosophe et les savoirs (with P.
Pellegrin,2002),Dunamis:AutourdelapuissancechezAristote(2008),Aris-
totle’s Metaphysics Beta: Symposium Aristotelicum (with A. Laks, 2009),
and a French translation with commentary of the Prior Analytics (2014).
Matteo Di Giovanni is Assistant to the Chair of Late Ancient and Arabic
Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich. He recently
earned his Ph.D. in Graeco-Arabic and Islamic studies from Yale University
with a dissertation entitled “Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Book Alpha Minor:
StudiesintheHistoryoftheTraditionandCriticalEditionsoftheGreekand
ArabicTexts.”Hisresearchfocusesonboththetextualandthephilosophical
tradition of Aristotle in Islam. Recent publications include The Commenta-
tor. Averroes’s Reading of the Metaphysics (2014), Averroes and Philosophy
in Islamic Spain (2012), and Motifs of Andalusian Philosophy in the Pre-
Almohad Age (2011).
SilviaFazzo(UniversitàdellaCalabria)’swritingsmainlydealwithAristotle’s
MetaphysicsandtheAristoteliantradition,includingphilologicalreconstruc-
tion of Greek philosophical texts. See among her volumes Il libro Lambda
dellaMetafisicadiAristotele(2012),CommentoallibroLambdadellaMeta-
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fisica di Aristotele (2014), Aporia e sistema… nelle Quaestiones di Alessan-
drodiAfrodisia(2002)andAlessandrodiAfrodisia,Laprovvidenza(1999);
among others: Aristotelianism as a commentary tradition, The Metaphysics
fromAristotle toAlexander ofAphrodisias (2012),Heavenlymatter inAris-
totle, Metaphysics Lambda 2 (2013), and Towards a Textual History and
Reconstruction of Alexander of Aphrodisias’s Treatise On the Principles of
the Universe (with Mauro Zonta, 2014).
Stephan Herzberg is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Philosophisch-Theolo-
gische Hochschule Sankt Georgen (Frankfurt). He mainly works on ancient
and medieval philosophy, particularly in Aristotle. His publications include
Wahrnehmung und Wissen bei Aristoteles. Zur epistemologischen Funktion
der Wahrnehmung (2011) and Menschliche und göttliche Kontemplation.
Eine Untersuchung zum bios theoretikos bei Aristoteles (2013).
Christoph Horn is Professor of Ancient and Practical Philosophy at the Uni-
versity of Bonn and editor of the journal Archiv für Geschichte der Philoso-
phie. He is author of Plotin über Sein, Zahl und Einheit (1995). Augustinus
(1995), Antike Lebenskunst (1998), Politische Philosophie (2003), Philoso-
phie der Antike (2013) and Nichtideale Normativität (2014).
Maria Liatsi is Professor of Classics (Ancient Greek Philosophy) at the Uni-
versityofIoannina,Greece.HermainsubjectsarePlato,Aristotle,Hellenistic
philosophy, the reception of ancient Greek philosophy in mediaeval and
modern Times. For examples of her works see Aristoteles’ De generatione
animalium, Buch V. Einleitung und Kommentar (2000), Interpretation der
Antike. Die pragmatistische Methode historischer Forschung (2006), Die
semiotische Erkenntnistheorie Platons im Siebten Brief. Eine Einführung in
den sogenannten philosophischen Exkurs (2008) or Der Gedanke der irdis-
chenUnsterblichkeitinderAntikenPhilosophie.ZurMetaphysikdesLebens
in der Antike (working title, forthcoming).
Oliver Primavesi holds the chair of Greek (I) at the University of Munich
(LMU).HisresearchhasbeenfocusedmainlyonAristotleandthePresocrat-
ics, in particular on Empedocles. His books include Die Aristotelische Topik
(1996)andEmpedokles:PhysikaI(2008).Hehasco-authored,withA.Mar-
tin, L’Empédocle de Strasbourg (1999) and with J. Mansfeld, Die Vorsokra-
tikerGriechisch/Deutsch(2011),hehasedited,withK.Luchner,ThePreso-
cratics from the Latin Middle Ages to Hermann Diels (2011), and he has
contributedanewcriticaleditionofMetaphysicsAlphaMajortotheSympo-
sium Aristotelicum volume devoted to that book (2012).
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Christof Rapp is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-
UniversitätMünchenandtheeditorofseveraljournals,forexamplePhrone-
sis. Although he has published on a wide spectrum of topics, a special focus
is on Aristotle, including Identität, Persistenz und Substantialität. Untersu-
chung über das Verhältnis von sortalen Termen und Aristotelischer Substanz
(1995) and Aristoteles zur Einführung (42012).
Alberto Ross is Professor of Metaphysics at the Universidad Panamericana,
Mexico. His research is focused on ancient philosophy, especially Aristotle
andhisreceptioninlateantiquity.HisworksincludeDios,eternidadymovi-
miento en Aristóteles (2007), Filópono y el Pseudo Justino contra la eterni-
dad del movimiento (2010), The causality of the Prime Mover in Simplicius
(forthcoming 2015) and Causality, nature and fate in Alexander of Aphrodi-
sias (forthcoming 2016).
Marco Zingano is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidade de São Paulo
(USP). He mainly works on ancient philosophy, and takes a special interest
in Aristotle. Some of his publications are Studies on Ancient Ethics (2005)
and Nicomachean Ethics I 13–III 8: Treatise on Moral Virtue (2008).
Description:The treatise known as book Lambda of Aristotle s Metaphysics has become one of the most debated issues of recent scholarship. Aristotle adresses here fundamental questions of his theory of substance, his idea of causes and principles, and his concept of motions. Furthermore, the importance of the te
