Book Nu

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Book Nu is one of the later books of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, dealing with issues of unity, being, and the principles underlying reality.

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Book Nu canonical 1

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instanceOf book of Aristotle's Metaphysics
philosophical text
author Aristotle NERFINISHED
culturalContext Classical Greece NERFINISHED
discusses causal principles of being
causes of plurality
metaphysical foundations of reality NERFINISHED
principles of contraries
problem of the one and the many
relation between being and unity
unity of definition
unity of form and matter
unity of substance
field first philosophy
metaphysics
ontology
hasAlternativeName Book N of the Metaphysics NERFINISHED
Metaphysics Nu NERFINISHED
Metaphysics Ν NERFINISHED
hasForm treatise
hasPhilosophicalConcern how principles explain being and unity
how unity relates to substance
what makes a thing one
historicalPeriod 4th century BCE
influenced early modern metaphysics
later metaphysical debates on unity and being
medieval scholastic metaphysics
isContainedIn standard editions of Aristotle's Metaphysics
language Ancient Greek
mainTopic being
causes
oneness and multiplicity
principles underlying reality
substance
unity
partOf Metaphysics (Aristotle) NERFINISHED
philosophicalSchool Peripatetic school NERFINISHED
philosophicalTradition Ancient Greek philosophy
positionInWork later book in Aristotle's Metaphysics
relatedWork Book Lambda of Aristotle's Metaphysics NERFINISHED
Book Mu of Aristotle's Metaphysics NERFINISHED
studiedIn Aristotelian metaphysics scholarship
history of philosophy courses
traditionallyAttributedTo Aristotle NERFINISHED
treatsAs unity as a principle
unity as a property of being
workSeries Aristotle's corpus NERFINISHED

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