Notes on Translations and Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Synopsis
2. Project
3. Method
4. Context
5. Developmental Issues
6. Summary
7. Notes on Appendix D
Chapter One. Substances Most of All
1.1. Categories
1.2. Z7
1.3. Status Quaestionis
1.3.1. Z8, 1034a34
1.3.2. Z17, 1041b2831
1.3.3. H3, 1043b2223
1.3.4. 3, 1070a1719
1.4. The Summary
Chapter Two. Separate
2.1. The Argument in Its Context
2.1.1. B4, 999b420
2.1.2. H3, 1043b1423
2.1.3. 3, the Whole Chapter
2.1.4. The Oddities
2.1.5. An Objection
2.2. Separation
2.3. The Connection
2.3.1. B4, 999b420 and Its Doublet K2, 1060b2328
2.3.2. H3, 1043b1423
2.3.3. 3, the Whole Chapter
2.3.4. The Analysis
2.3.5. The Two Senses of Ungenerable and Indestructible
2.3.6. The Separation of the Form of a Compositewith and without Qualification
2.3.7. Eternity As a Criterion of Substantiality
Chapter Three. Eternal and Actual
3.1. Aporiai
3.1.1. B4, 999b420
3.1.2. K2, 1060b2328
3.1.3. K2, 1060a336
3.1.4. K2, 1060a327 and B4, 999a24b20
3.1.5. K2, 1060a2736 and B4, 1000b2031
3.1.6. The Summary of B4 and K2
3.2. Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms (A9, 991b19 and Its Doublet M5, 1079b351080a8)
3.2.1. Separation
3.2.2. That Which Will Set a Thing in Motion ()
3.2.3. The Production of Artifacts
Chapter Four. Individual or Universal
4.1. The Scope
4.2. Eternity and Actuality
4.3. The Dilemma
4.3.1. The Controversy
4.3.2. Textual Evidence
4.3.3. Intelligibility
Chapter Five. Principle
5.1. Arché
5.1.1. Eternity
5.1.2. Actuality
5.1.3. Separation
5.2. In Another and in Itself
5.2.1. 3 and GA 2.1
5.2.2. Generation of Animals
5.2.3. Actuality and Potentiality
Chapter Six. Power
6.1. The Problem
6.1.1. A New Principle
6.2. Self-Realization
6.2.1. The New Theoretical Framework
6.2.2. Aristotle's Embryology
6.3. Individual or Universal?
6.3.1. Nutrition and Generation
6.3.2. Inconsistency in the GA
Chapter Seven. Artifacts
7.1. Pros Hen
7.2. Pneuma
7.3. Dinosaurs
7.4. Pragmata
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Notes
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Passages Cited
Index of Greek Terms