Aristotle, Metaphysics #

9 passages treated in 43 classes; 40 passages mentioned in passing

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Book I #

Aristotle, Metaphysics I #

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Treated in:

• Wisdom (2005) — 3. Metaphysics I.1 (end): Why Knowing the Cause Is Wiser Than Experience
• Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 1. Why ‘Metaphysics’ Is the Wrong Name: Wisdom, Reason and Shakespeare’s Definition of Reason
• Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 2. Looking Before and After: The Senses of Order, Distinction and Error, and Two Ways of Dividing a Book

Book II #

Aristotle, Metaphysics II (Aquinas’s commentary, lectio 2) #

Text: aquinas.cc, Latin – English · aquinas.cc, Latin – Greek · isidore.co, Latin – English

Treated in:

• Ethics — 5. The Good, the Better and the End of Man: Own Act, Virtue and Proportion
• Wisdom (2005) — 17. Why Truth Belongs to the Wise Man: Wisdom, Truth, and the Balance of Hope and Fear (Metaphysics II, Reading 2)
• Prima Pars — 14. Summa I, q.2, a.3: The Third, Fourth and Fifth Ways, the Most Universals, and Replies on Evil and Enough Causes

Aristotle, Metaphysics II (Aquinas’s commentary, lectio 5) #

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Treated in:

• Wisdom (2005) — 20. Metaphysics II, Reading 5: Custom, Certitude, and Matching the Way of Proceeding to the Subject

Book V #

Aristotle, Metaphysics V (Aquinas’s commentary, lectio 2) #

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Treated in:

• Natural Hearing — 66. Points Cannot Compose a Line: Aristotle’s Arguments in the First Reading
• Natural Hearing — 73. The Now as Indivisible Limit of Past and Future
• Wisdom (2005) — 23. Metaphysics III, Second Reading: Which Causes Wisdom Studies, the Axioms, and Whether the Way We Know Must Be the Way Things Are

Aristotle, Metaphysics V (Aquinas’s commentary, lectio 3) #

Text: aquinas.cc, Latin – English · aquinas.cc, Latin – Greek · isidore.co, Latin – English

Treated in:

• Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 3. Custom as Tyrant, Method and Matter, and the Logical Division of the Fourteen Books of Wisdom
• Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 4. Metaphysics Book Nine, Reading 1: Distinguishing Kinds and Senses, and the Meanings of Ability
• Prima Secundae — 125. Infused Habits and the Growth of Habits: Carrying Words Over, Greatness as Perfection, and the Four Opinions on More and Less

Book VI #

Aristotle, Metaphysics VI (Aquinas’s commentary, lectio 4) #

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Treated in:

• De Anima — 2. The Proemium of the De Anima: Why Knowledge of the Soul Is Most Desirable, and What ‘Soul’ Means
• De Anima — 66. Summa I, Q.75 a.4: Is the Soul the Man? Body and Soul, and Truth as the Mean Between Extremes
• De Anima — 92. Summa I q.77 a.5: Are All the Powers of the Soul in the Soul as Their Subject? Soul and Spirit, and the Meanings of ‘Of’
• De Anima — 93. Reply to Augustine and Plato: Truth Between Two Extremes, and Must We Know Things the Way They Are?
• De Anima — 116. Summa I, Q.79, Art.11: Are Speculative and Practical Intellect Different Powers? (Seeing vs. Doing; Knowing vs. Loving)
• De Anima — 139. Summa I q.84 a.6: Does Our Knowledge Come from the Senses? Democritus, Plato, and Aristotle’s Middle Way
• Ethics — 9. Defining Moral Virtue: A Habit of Choosing the Mean, and the Virtues Between Their Extremes
• Wisdom (2005) — 38. Metaphysics VI: The Whole Truth, Contradiction, and Truth in the Mind, Good in Things; Predicates and Definition in Logic
• Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 10. Metaphysics IX: Motion as the Most Known Act, and Heraclitus and Hegel
• Prima Pars — 98. Order of Teaching About God, and Whether There Is Procession in God (Arius and Sabellius)
• Prima Pars — 99. Inward Procession, the Word, and Why the Word’s Procession Is Called Generation (ST I q.27 a.1–2)
• Prima Secundae — 152. Summa I-II Q.64 a.2–3: The Middle of Reason, Justice, and the Middle of the Intellectual Virtues (Truth, Contraries, and Opposites)

Book VIII #

Aristotle, Metaphysics VIII #

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Treated in:

• Wisdom (2005) — 40. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 1: Summing Up Book VII, Change, and Knowing First Matter by Proportion
• Wisdom (2005) — 41. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 2: Substantial Form Compared with Accidental Form, and Why Proportions Matter
• Wisdom (2005) — 42. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 3 (Part 1): Form Compared with Plato’s Separate Species
• Wisdom (2005) — 43. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 3 (Part 2): Definitions and Forms Are Like Numbers
• Wisdom (2005) — 44. Metaphysics Book 8, Reading 4: How Matter Relates to Its Products, to the Other Causes, and to Coming to Be (with Wine and Vinegar and Socrates’ Argument from Contraries)
• Wisdom (2005) — 45. Metaphysics Book 8, Reading 5: How Matter and Form Are One, and an Introduction to Book 9 on Act and Ability

Book IX #

Aristotle, Metaphysics IX #

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Treated in:

• Wisdom (2005) — 46. Metaphysics IX, Reading 1: Substance, the Categories, and the Senses of Ability (Active and Passive Potency)
• Wisdom (2005) — 47. Metaphysics IX, Reading 2: Rational vs. Natural Abilities — Knowledge of Contraries and the Modern Misunderstanding of Reason and Nature
• Wisdom (2005) — 48. Metaphysics IX, Readings 1–3: Kinds of Ability, the Megarian Error, and Why Motion Seems Most Real
• Wisdom (2005) — 49. The Meanings of ‘Necessary’ and Metaphysics IX, Reading 4: Rational Ability, Choice, and Mind versus Love as First Mover
• Wisdom (2005) — 50. Metaphysics IX, Reading 5: Act Known by Induction and Proportion; Motion vs. Perfect Act
• Wisdom (2005) — 51. Juliet’s Beauty and God’s Self-Knowledge; Reading 6 on Proximate Ability; Opening of Reading 7 on the Senses of ‘Before’
• Wisdom (2005) — 52. Metaphysics IX, Readings 7–8: Act Before Ability in Definition, Time and Perfection (The Chicken or the Egg)
• Wisdom (2005) — 53. Metaphysics IX, Reading 9: Eternal and Corruptible Things, Necessary and Impossible, Pure Act, and What Is More Knowable to Us
• Wisdom (2005) — 54. Metaphysics IX, Readings 9–10: Act Is Better Than Ability, the Transcendentals, and the Ability for Contraries
• Wisdom (2005) — 55. Metaphysics IX, Reading 10: Evil as Privation, God as Pure Act and the Best Thing, and Why Act Is More Knowable
• Wisdom (2005) — 56. Metaphysics IX, Chapter 10: Truth and Falsity in the Mind’s Composing and Dividing
• Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 10. Metaphysics IX: Motion as the Most Known Act, and Heraclitus and Hegel

Aristotle, Metaphysics IX (Aquinas’s commentary, lectio 3) #

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Treated in:

• Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 11. Metaphysics IX: The Second Error, ‘Everything Is Possible’, and the Definition of the Possible (from 0:03)

Mentioned in passing #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics I #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics I, ch. 1 #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics II #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics III #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics IV #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics V #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics V, ch. 1 #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics V, ch. 5 #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics VI #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics VII #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics VIII #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics IX #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics IX, ch. 3 #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics IX, ch. 7 #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics X #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics XI #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics XI, ch. 9 #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics XII #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics XII, ch. 9 #

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Aristotle, Metaphysics XIII #

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Aquinas’s commentary on Metaphysics II #

Aquinas’s commentary on Metaphysics III #

Aquinas’s commentary on Metaphysics V #

Aquinas’s commentary on Metaphysics VII #

Aquinas’s commentary on Metaphysics XI #