A work of loving students for their teachers: a tale of the mission by dedicated midtwentieth-century professors at Columbia University to rescue

Aristotle for modern

readers, with insights on human nature, human knowledge, and the literary transmission
James A. Arieti, Hampden-Sydney College
of philosophy.
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
Two Metaphysical Naturalisms: Aristotle and Justus Buchler provides an American naturalist
reading of Aristotles 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. This book expands on classical Greek thought and develops a matured stance on
Aristotles modes of knowing and Justus Buchlers systematic metaphysics.

VICTORINO TEJERA is emeritus professor of philosophy and humanities at

Stony Brook University.

ATILA BAYAT was the copyeditor for Tejeras Literature, Criticism, and the Theory

of Signs (1995).

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Two Metaphysical Naturalisms

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 Buchlers radically
pluralistic concepts of natural complexes and ontological parity.

Gary Shapiro, University of Richmond

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Two Metaphysical
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