PHIL 411 – Aristotle

Instructors: Mariska Leunissen and C.D.C. Reeve. This course meets M 3:00 – 5:30 p.m. in CW 208.

This course will explore different aspects of Aristotle’s metaphysics or ‘first philosophy’, including his understanding of the concepts of being, substance, essence, unity, definition, form, actuality and potentiality, and the unmoved movers. The central text will be Aristotle’s Metaphysics, of which we will read large parts.