The volumes of the "Aristotelicum Symposium" became mandatory reference works for Aristotle's studies. In this eighteenth volume, a group of distinguished scholars presents the study of the first chapter of the first chapter of Metaphysics. Aristotle presents here his philosophical project as a search for wisdom, and he is in the knowledge of the first principles that allow us to explain what exists.

As it appears, the early philosophers were seeking this wisdom, despite the divergent views on what these first principles were. Before Aristotle puts his own views, he offers a critical study of the views of his predecessors, ending with a lengthy discussion of Plato's doctrine in models.

Alpha's book is not just a basic text for rebuilding the early history of Greek philosophy; it sets the agenda for Aristotle's project of wisdom on the basis of what he learned from his predecessors. The volume consists of eleven chapters, each dealing with a different section of the text, and a new version of the Greek text of metaphysics alpha by Oliver Primavisi, based on a comprehensive examination of complex and indirect imitation.

The introduction to the edition presents a new look at the question that haunts the editors of metaphysics since Bekker, the relationship between the different traditions of the text.

I want that book.