Abstract

RODRIGUES, Fernando Augusto da Rocha. A inter-relação estrutural entre alguns livros da metafísica. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2011, vol.25, n.50, pp.501-519. ISSN 1982-596X.

This aim of this paper is to provide an interpretation of books G, ZHQ and L of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, showing that they can be read as a connected argumentative whole. The other books of Metaphysics will be here disregarded, since they do not fit in the advanced interpretation. The text starts out by showing that it is plausible to focus on some books of this work by Aristotle, while putting others aside. In order to show this, the author resorts to some traditional scholars of Aristotle, beginning with C. A. Brandis. After that the paper develops an interpretation of book G, maintaining that the model of science put forward in that book requires an analysis of the concept of substance. Since there are different types of substance, which are distinguished in chapters 1 and 6 of book L, the paper addresses this book and holds that this distinction is required in order to give an appropriate answer to the question of substance. Books ZHQ, on the other hand, provide a thorough analysis of one of the concepts of substance distinguished in L. This reading of the five mentioned books shows, therefore, that they can be read as forming a unity.

Keywords : Metaphysics; Substance; Aristotle; Book G.

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