Abstract
We are told that the fourteen books of Metaphysics were brought into their present arrangement by editors after Aristotle's death. Book A, which they set at the beginning, describes the aim of philosophy as the removal of surprise and perplexity by supplying knowledge of original causes, and assesses the work of Aristotle's predecessors in that field. After the short book designated a, B outlines a set of 'perplexities, most of which get examined, more or less directly, in the rest of the treatise. F thus stands, by the traditional ordering, at the start of Aristotle's main discussion of metaphysics; it announces its subject-matter in the first chapter; and its argument is hardly more dependent on what has preceded than on other parts of Aristotle's works.'
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