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Two Metaphysical Naturalisms:

Aristotle and Justus Buchler

By Victorino Tejera
Edited Atila Bayat

A work of loving students for their teachers: a tale of the mission by dedicated mid-twentieth
century professors at Columbia University to rescue Aristotle for modern readers, with insights on
human nature, human knowledge, and the literary transmission of philosophy.
James A. Arieti, Hampden-Sydney College

This book is an indispensable resource for understanding both Aristotle and American naturalism
as developed by Justus Buchler. Victorino Tejera and his editor have given us a much needed and
illuminating commentary on Aristotles Metaphysics that frees it from overly transcendental and
theological interpretations by drawing on Buchler's radically pluralistic concepts of natural
complexes and ontological parity
Gary Shapiro, University of Richmond

Two Metaphysical Naturalisms: Aristotle and Justus Buchler is an important scholarly contribution to both Aristotle studies and an often-
neglected strain of American philosophy, Columbia naturalism. Tejera convincingly demonstrates important philosophical connections
between these fields of scholarship and his detailed treatment of Aristotles texts, especially those that have come down to us as the
Metaphysics, is an exemplar of careful textual analysis, sensitive to both the Greek language of its time and the philosophical debates that
swirled around the master in the decades following his death. We are privileged to find in this volume a fine treatment of Justus Buchler, as
well, and Tejeras work will be an important addition to the literature.
Armen T. Marsoobian, Southern Connecticut State University

ABOUT THE BOOK

Two Metaphysical Naturalisms: Aristotle and Justus Buchler provides an American naturalist reading of Aristotle's "Metaphysics" with extensive
literary-philological considerations of the original Greek text. Victorino Tejera defines and evaluates the underpinnings of the systematic
metaphysics of Justus Buchler through the American tradition of reading Aristotle. The book expands on classical Greek thought and
develops a matured stance on Aristotle's modes of knowing and Justus Buchler's systematic metaphysics. Tejera extracts from the
Aristotelian-Peripatetic metaphysics the core of Aristotle's discussion of existence as existence by keeping track of the Peripatetic and
Platonist interpolations of the editors who brought the text into being. The book also summarizes Buchler's Metaphysics of Natural Complexes
in less technical terms to make it more accessible. With the help of Justus Buchler, Tejera reintroduces the concept of metaphysics as
coordinative analysis. Finally bridging the classical with the modern, Tejera reveals a cohesive revitalization of metaphysical naturalism for
contemporary scholars and students of both ancient and modern philosophy.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Victorino Tejera is emeritus professor of philosophy and humanities at Stony Brook University.

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