Abstract

Readers of Ando's earlier book, Aristotle's Theory of Practical Cognition, will be pleased to see that Ando has addressed his considerable scholarship to an elucidation of the meaning of "metaphysics." The author confines himself to a survey of the formal explanations of the term given by philosophers from the Alexandrian period to the present. The most detailed consideration is given to Aristotle, Kant and Heidegger in a study which reveals the problematic character of the claim of metaphysics to be a divine science.--H. C.