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Metaphysics

Ta meta ta physika

textual humanities text book core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Aristotle, author

Canon Rationale

A foundational metaphysical treatise, included for being, substance, causation, actuality and potentiality, first philosophy, and later scholastic and modern metaphysics.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 26.

Evidence

  • review essay: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 'Aristotle's Metaphysics'.
  • anthology: Internet Classics Archive, 'Metaphysics by Aristotle', translated by W. D. Ross.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency

Completion unit: read a defined central-book selection or the complete treatise in a specified translation. The selected/full boundary must be recorded.

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