Book Lambda

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Book Lambda is a central section of Aristotle’s Metaphysics that focuses on the nature of substance, causation, and the unmoved mover as the ultimate principle of reality.

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instanceOf book of Metaphysics
philosophical text
work of Aristotle
alternativeName Book 12 of the Metaphysics NERFINISHED
Book XII of the Metaphysics NERFINISHED
Metaphysics Lambda NERFINISHED
argues eternal motion requires an eternal cause
highest substance is thought thinking itself
there must be a first unmoved mover
author Aristotle NERFINISHED
canonicalStatus central section of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
characterizes unmoved mover as eternal
unmoved mover as final cause of motion
unmoved mover as immaterial
unmoved mover as necessary being
defines unmoved mover as purely actual
discipline metaphysics
philosophy of religion
historicalPeriod 4th century BCE
influenced Islamic philosophy
Jewish philosophy
Thomas Aquinas NERFINISHED
medieval Christian theology
scholastic metaphysics
language Ancient Greek
mainTopic causation
divine substance
first philosophy
substance
theology
ultimate principles of reality
unmoved mover NERFINISHED
partOf Metaphysics NERFINISHED
philosophicalSchool Peripatetic school NERFINISHED
philosophicalTradition Ancient Greek philosophy
positionInWork twelfth book of Metaphysics
treatsOf cosmology
efficient cause
eternal substances
final cause
formal cause
four causes
hierarchy of beings
immaterial substances
material cause
necessity in nature
prime mover
relation between physics and metaphysics
workIn Aristotelian metaphysics NERFINISHED

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Metaphysics hasPart Book Lambda
subject surface form: Metaphysics (Aristotle)