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CONTENTS






INTRODUCTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY


I. Book Alpha： THE THEORY OF EXPLANATION


1. The Development of Theoretical Knowledge


2. The Nature and Goal of Wisdom


3. Early Views of Materials, Movement, and Good


4. Inadequate Uses of Material and Efficient Factors


5. Pythagorean and Parmenidean Principles


6. Platonist Material and Formal Explanations


7. Explanation as Material, Efficient, Formal, and Final


8. Critique of Early Philosophies


9. Critique of Doctrines of Ideas


10. Conclusion of the Historical Survey of Explanations


II. Book Alpha the Less: REMARKS ON PHILOSOPHIC PROCEDURES


1. Progress in Philosophic Knowledge


2. Rejection of the Infinite Regress


3. The Importance of Training in Method


III. Book Beta:TYPICAL PROBLEMS IN GENERAL PHILOSOPHY


1. An Outline of Philosophic Problems


2. Problems of Unitary Science and Varied Being


3. Problems of Genera as Principles of Explanation


4. Problems of Forms, Principles, and Unity


5. Problems of Bodily and of Mathematical Being


6. Problems of Ideas, Power, and Universality






THE PROVINCE OF PHILOSOPHY


IV. Book Gamma: BEING AND KNOWLEDGE


1. The Science of Being as Being


2. The Unity of Philosophy


3. Philosophy and the Axiomatic


4. Debates about Contradiction


5. Perception, Change, and Truth


6. Right Judgment and Relativity


7. Intermediates and Excluded Middle


8. Contradiction and Futile Indiscrimination


V. Book Delta: DEFINITIONS OF TERMS


1. Beginning


2. Explanatory Factor


3. Element


4. Nature


5. Necessary


6. One


7. Being


8. Primary Being


9. Same, Other, Different, Alike


10. Opposite, Contrary, Other in Kind


11. Before and After


12. Power


13. Quantity


14. Quality


15. Relation


16. The Complete


17. Limit


18. According To, By Itself


19. Disposition


20. Habitude


21. Endurance


22. Privation


23. To Have and Hold


24. To Come From


25. Part


26. Whole


27. Mutilated


28. Genus


29. The False


30. The Accidental






VI. Book Epsilon: FIRST PHILOSOPHY AND IRRELEVANT WAYS OF BEING


1. Theoretical Sciences as Natural, Mathematical, and Theological


2. Exclusion of Accidental Being from Science


3. The Genuineness of the Fortuitous


4. Exclusion of Being as the True from Science






BEING AND BECOMING


VII. Book Zeta: THE SEARCH FOR PRIMARY BEING


1. Primary and Dependent Being


2. Diverse Views of Primary Being


3. Subject Matter as Primary Being


4. Definition and Integral Concepts


5. Definition and Difficult Dependent Concepts


6. Definition, Knowledge, and Objects


7. Clues in Natural and Artificial Production


8. Matter and Form Combined in Objects


9. Conditions of Types of Change


10. Definition, Analysis, and Form


11. Definition and Forms Not Easily Recognized


12. Definition and Fundamental Characteristics


13. Universals as Common Qualities


14. Universals Not Independent


15. Universals, Definition, and Knowledge


16. The Highest Universals


17. The Problem of the Unity of the Individual






VIII. Book Eta: THE UNITY OF MATTER AND FORM


1. Matter and Change


2. Differentiating Characteristics and Individuality


3. Alleged Mediations Between Matter and Form


4. Emergence of Specific Objects and Events


5. Difficulties in the Logic of Change


6. The Unity of the Individual Explained






IX. Book Theta: POWERS AND OPERATIONS


1. Active and Passive Power


2. Non-Rational and Rational Power


3. Power and Change


4. Power and Possibility and Impossibility


5. Juxtaposition of Complementary Powers


6. Antithesis of Power and Act


7. Conditions of Potential Being


8. Priority of Act to Power


9. Estimates of Power and Act


10. Truth and Being


X. Book Iota：UNITY AND DERIVATIVE CONCEPTS


1. Unity as Individual and Measure


2. Unity and Being as Definite


3. Unity, Plurality, and Their Derivatives


4. The Nature of Contraries


5. Conjoint Denial of Extremes


6. Opposition of Unity to Plurality


7. The Nature of Intermediates


8. Otherness as to Kinds


9. Contraries Marking Differences in Kind


10. The Perishable and the Imperishable


PHILOSOPHIC EXCERPTS


XI. Book Kappa: REPETITIONS AND QUOTATIONS


A. FROM THE METAPHYSICS


1. Questions on the Unity of Wisdom


2. Questions on the Status of Principles


3. Being and the Unity of Philosophy


4. First Science and the Axiomatic


5. The Principle of Contradiction


6. Alleged Difficulties About Contradiction


7. The Rank of Theology Among Sciences


8. Being as Accident and as Truth


B. FROM THE PHYSICS


9. Chance


10. Power, Operation, and Movement


11. The Infinite


12. Change and Movement


13. Kinds of Movement and Allied Concepts






ETERNAL BEING


XII. Book Lambda: DIVINE BEING


1. Primary Beings and Their Kinds


2. Changeable Primary Being and Matter


3. Definite Change and the Forms


4. Analogies in Different Changes


5. Status of Principles Within Perishable Being


6. The Eternal Prime Mover


7. The Final Good


8. Stellar Divinities and the Divine Unity


9. Self-Activity of the Supreme Being


10. Divine Perfection and the Natural World






XIII. Book Mu：MATHEMATICAL ENTITIES AND THE IDEAS


1. Views of Mathematics and of Ideas


2. Mathematics and the Concrete


3. Mathematics as Abstract


4. The Ideas as Original and Selected


5. The Ideas as Futile for Explanation


6. Views of Numbers as Explanations


7. Units of Number Alike or Unlike


8. The Nature and Derivation of Numbers


9. Numbers, Geometry, and the Ideas


10. Generality and Particular Reference of Knowledge






XIV. Book Nu: Numbers, Ideas, and First Principles


1. Contrary Principles, Unity, and Plurality


2. Elements and Eternal and Plural Being


3. Numbers, Ideas, and Generation


4. Numbers, Ideas, and the Good


5. Numbers, Generation, and Explanation


6. Consequences of Fantastic Doctrines of Numbers


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