Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy

Volume 2, Issue 2, 2018

Ancient Greek Philosophy: Classical Greek Philosophy

Metaphysics Z: The Real Set-up

Metaphysics Z is usually interpreted as moving from the pri-macy of the particular, individual substance to the primacy of the substantial form. This rests partly on the undeniable fact that the rather restricted universe of the Categories is there expanded into the much wider universe of the Meta-physics; but it also rests on the questionable view of an abrupt shift from a broadly logical to a purely metaphysical doctrine. In this paper, I suggest that the Physics universe is under consideration in book Z almost from the start, and present a partial sketch of reading the first three chapters accordingly.