Abstract

A textbook intended to play the role of the Socratic midwife, by introducing the student-reader to the philosophy of being through contact with the great minds which first struggled with the puzzle of the one and the many. It is thorough and detailed. The author takes the reader from Thales to Aristotle in search of an understanding of being and becoming. The text is replete with charts and diagrams. There is a useful lexicon of Aristotelian metaphysical terms and a fine annotated bibliography.--V. G. P.