|I.||Life of Aristotle|
|III.||Historical Value of Aristotle's Criticism|
|I.||The Origin of Knowledge and Wisdom|
|II.||General Character of Wisdom|
|III.||Four Kinds of Causes|
|IV.||Teleology and the Formative Principle|
|V.||Mathematicians, Pythagoreans, and Eleatics|
|VI.||The Peculiarities of Plato|
|VII.||The Four Conceptions of Cause United in Aristotle|
|VIII.||The Defects of the Pre-Aristotelian Systems|
|IX.||A Criticism of Plato|
Created for Peithô's Web from Aristotle on his predecessors; being the first book of his Metaphysics; tr. from the text edition of W. Christ, with introd. and notes by A. E. Taylor. Chicago, Open Court, 1907.Taylor's footnotes have been converted to endnotes. Greek unicode text entered with Peithô's Younicoder.
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