The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues. The volumes in the series have been widely welcomed and favourably reviewed. Important new titles are being added to the series, and a number of wellestablished volumes are being reissued with revisions and/or supplementary material. Lindsay Judson provides a rigorous translation of the twelfth book (Lambda) of Aristotles Metaphysics and a detailed philosophical commentary. Lambda is an outline for a much more extended work in metaphysics or more accurately, since Aristotle does not use the term metaphysics, in what he calls first philosophy, the inquiry into the principles and causes of all things. Aristotle discusses the principles of natural and changeable substances, which include form, matter, privation and efficient cause he argues that principles of this sort are, at least by analogy, the principles of nonsubstantial items as well. In the second half of the book he turns to unchanging, immaterial substances, first arguing that there must be at least one such substance, which he calls God, to act as the prime unmoved mover, the source of all change in the natural world. He then explores the nature of God and its activity of thinking (it is the fullest exposition there is of Aristotles extraordinary and very difficult conception of his...

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