罗斯是牛津版亚里士多德英文版全集的主编。1908年，Ross翻译的《形而上学》作为全集第八卷出版；1924年，出版了巨著《亚里士多德的形而上学——带有导论和解说的校订文本》；1928年，以自己校订的古希腊文本为基础，出版了《形而上学》英译本的修订版。本次影印即依此1928年版。
本书的边码980a-1093b，为《亚里士多德全集》古希腊文原典的标准编码，即贝克尔编码。

亚里士多德（公元前384年-前322年），古希腊哲学家，柏拉图的学生、亚历山大大帝的老师。他的著作几乎涵盖所有学科：物理学、形而上学、诗歌、戏剧、音乐、生物学、动物学、逻辑学、政治、以及伦理学，被称为古代文化史上一位百科全书式的科学家。他的思想更成为中世纪基督教和伊斯兰经院派哲学的支柱，在人类发展史上产生了深远影响。

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1.The advance from sensation through memory,experience,and art,to
theoretical knowledge.
2.Characteristics of 'wisdom' (philosophy).
3.The successive recognition by earlier philosophers of the material,
efflcient and nal causes.
4.Inadequacy of the treatment of these causes.
5.The Pythagorean and Eleatic schools;the former recognizes vaguely
the formal cause.
6.The Platonic philosophy;it uses only the material and formal causes.
7.The relation of the various systems to the four causes.
8.Criticism of the pre-Platonic philosophers.
9.Criticism of the doctrine of Ideas.
10.The history of philosophy reveals no causes other than the four.
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I.General considerations about the study of philosophy.
2.There cannot be an infinite series,nor an infinite variety of kinds of
causes.
3.Different methods are appropriate to different studies.
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1.Sketch of the main problems of philosophy.
2.Fuller statement of the problems:--
(i) Can one science treat of all the four causes?
(ii) Are the primary axioms treated of by the science of substance,
and if not,by what science?
(iii) Can one science treat of all substances?
(iv) Does the science of substance treat also of its attributes?
(v) Are there any non-sensible substances,and if so,of how many
kinds?
3.(vi) Are the genera,or the constituent parts,of things their first
principles?
(vii) If the genera,is it the highest genera or the lowest?
4.(viii) Is there anything apart from individual things?
(ix) Is each of the first principles one in kind,orin number?
(x) Are the principles of perishable and of imperishable things the
same?
(xi) Are being and unity substances or attributes?
5.(xii) Are the objects of mathematics substances?
6.(xiii) Do Ideas exist,as well as sensible things and the objects of
mathematics?
(xiv) Do the first principles exist potentially or actually?
(xv) Are the first principles universal or individual?
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1.Our object is the study of being as such.
2.We must therefore study primary being (viz.substance) unity and
plurality,and the derivative contraries,and the attributes of being
and of substance.
3.We must study also the primary axioms,and especially the law of
contradiction.
4.Fatal difficulties involved in the denial of this law.
5.The connexion of such denial with Protagoras'doctrine of relativity
the doctrine refuted.
6.Further refutation of Protagoras.
7.The law of excluded middle defended.
8.All judgements are not true,nor are all false;all things are not at
rest,nor are all in motion.
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