Episode Synopsis "The First Substance: Eternal, Moving, Circular, Actual, Necessary. - "Metaphysics" Book L.6"

While much of the "Metaphysics" seems to deal with something that one might need to understand our own cognitive architecture, in the last half of Book Lambda Aristotle crosses over into cosmology. Is he really right in doing so? Does the science of being qua being really have authority over the cosmos in this way? Or is this Aristotle making a category mistake?

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