![]() There would be little profit in writing short notes on isolated points in the arguments of the two (. It is a subject which must be considered as a whole. The work of Professor Jaeger on the Aristotelian metaphysics, and its modification by the late Hans von Arnim, have raised many new points of the greatest interest, and may, I hope, be considered as having opened up a large and fascinating new field for discussion rather than as having closed the matter. My conclusions are not the same as theirs, and the argument must stand or fall as a consistent whole. ![]() That is my excuse for an account which must include much which was always known and much which has arisen out of the work of Jaeger and von Arnim. If after a re-examination of the texts he feels he has a different story to tell, he must tell it for himself. Anyone who, possessed of some previous acquaintance with the Aristotelian corpus, reads their work is inevitably stimulated to return to Aristotle with his mind full of fresh ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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