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Two Metaphysical Naturalisms: Aristotle and Justus Buchler provides an American naturalist reading of Aristotles Metaphysics with extensive literary-philological considerations of the original Greek text. Victorino Tejera defines and evaluates the underpinnings of the systematic metaphysics of Justus Buchler through the American tradition of reading Aristotle. The book expands on classical Greek thought and develops a matured stance on Aristotles modes of knowing and Justus Buchlers systematic metaphysics. Tejera extracts from the Aristotelian-Peripatetic metaphysics the core of Aristotles discussion of existence as existence by keeping track of the Peripatetic and Platonist interpolations of the editors who brought the text into being. The book also summarizes Buchlers Metaphysics of Natural Complexes in less technical terms to make it more accessible. With the help of Justus Buchler, Tejera reintroduces the concept of metaphysics as coordinative analysis.Finally bridging the classical with the modern, Tejera reveals a cohesive revitalization of metaphysical naturalism for contemporary scholars and students of both ancient and modern philosophy.

Examining what we can reliably know about Plato and the historical Socrates, this text shows how pervasively the sources of information were biased by Pythagoreanism, Platonism and Neoplatonism. A source-critical account of 4th-century Athens opinion reappraises ancient Greek philosophy.