Metaphysics: Books B & K 1-2

A translation of the third book (Beta) of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, together with two related chapters from the eleventh book (Kappa). Arthur Madigan’s accompanying introduction and commentary give detailed guidance to these texts, in which Aristotle sets out what he takes to be the main problems of metaphysics or first philosophy and assesses possible solutions to them; he takes his starting-point from the work of earlier philosophers, especially Plato and some of the Presocratics.