![]() ![]() The collection is most likely to have been put together by Andronicus or someone else on the basis of the thematic similarities among the individual treatises. Aristotle, however, is not responsible for assembling the books of the Metaphysics into a single work. ![]() Metaphysics ( ta meta ta phusika) means “the things after the physical things” and may point to the position of the metaphysical books in the Hellenistic edition of Aristotle’s works (after the physical books) or possibly to the order in which metaphysical issues should be learned in an ideal curriculum (after the study of physics). The title is not by Aristotle and is due to a Hellenistic editor, traditionally identified with Andronicus of Rhodes (1st century BCE). Aristotle’s Metaphysics, one of the most influential works in Western thought, is a collection of fourteen treatises or books. ![]()
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