In “Coming to Understanding”, Ammonius seeks to answer certain questions, questions which science cannot possibly answer. By offering answers to these questions, he hopes to provide a positive contribution to extra-scientific inquiry in general, and to traditional metaphysics in particular. These interrelated questions include:

Why is Being exemplified?
What is the structure of Being?
Why is Being intelligible?
What is the purpose, if any, of the exemplification of Being in individual beings?

Trenton Merricks
University of Virginia