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CONTENTS 
BOOK VIII. Motion and the Unmoved Mover 
The eternity of motion 
Alternations of motion and rest demonstrated 
External and internal causes of motion 
The original Mover not further moved 
The Unmoved Mover is eternal and one 
Locomotion, the primal kind of motion 
Rotation, the primal form of locomotion 
The Unmoved Mover is without magnitude 
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THE METAPHYSICS 
BOOK I. (Alpha Major). On Philosophical Wisdom 
The evolution of knowledge 
The nature of wisdom 
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BOOK II. (Alpha Minor). On Philosophical 
Wisdom (Continued) 
Character of philosophical truth 
Finitude of the explanatory process 
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BOOK IV. (Gamma). Being and ‘Ousia 
The science of abstract Being 
Primary Being and essential thinghood 
Definition of ‘Ousia’ 
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BOOK VI. (Epsilon). Science and Its Objects 
i. The three main divisions of science 
ii. On the accidental 
BOOK IX. (Theta). On the Actual and the Potential 
Active and passive potencies 
Rational and non-rational potencies 
Refutation of the Megaric fallacy 
The nature of actuality 
On the priority of the actual 
Good and bad actualities and potencies 
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