Aristotle's metaphysics

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Aristotle's metaphysics

Author:

Aristotle.

Uniform Title:

Metaphysics. English

ISBN:

9781888009033

Publication Information:

Santa Fe, N.M. : Green Lion Press, 2002, c1999.

Physical Description:

303 pages ; 26 cm.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Aristotle's Metaphysics -- Book I (Book A): Wisdom -- Book II (Book a): Inquiry -- Book III (Book B): Impasses -- Book IV (Book F): The Study of Being as Being -- Book V (Book A): Things Meant in More than One Way -- Book VI (Book E): Primary and Derivative Kinds of Being -- Book VII (Book Z): Thinghood and Form -- Book VIII (Book H): Form and Being-at-Work -- Book IX (Book O): Potency and Being-at-Work -- Book X (Book I): Wholeness -- Book XI (Book K): Order -- Book XII (Book A): The Cause of Being -- Book XIII (Book M): The Being of Intelligible Things -- Book XIV (Book N): Intelligible Things as Causes -- Bibliography: Suggested Reading -- Index.

Subject Term:

Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.

Added Author:

Sachs, Joe, 1946-

Summary:

Joe Sachs has followed up his brilliant translation of Aristotle's Physics with a new translation of Metaphysics. Sachs's translations bring distinguished new light onto Aristotle's works, which are foundational to history of science. Sachs translates Aristotle with an authenticity that was lost when Aristotle was translated into Latin and abstract Latin words came to stand for concepts Aristotle expressed with phrases in everyday Greek language. When the works began being translated into English, those abstract Latin words or their cognates were used, thus suggesting a level of jargon and abstraction, and in some cases misleading interpretation, which was not Aristotle's language or style. These important new translations open up Aristotle's original thought to readers.

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Aristotle, 384 B.C. - 322 B. C. Aristotle was born at Stagira, in Macedonia, in 384 B.C. At the age of 17, he went to Athens to study at Plato's Academy, where he remained for about 20 years, as a student and then as a teacher.

When Plato died in 347 B.C., Aristotle moved to Assos, a city in Asia Minor, where a friend of his, Hermias, was ruler. After Hermias was captured and executed by the Persians in 345 B.C., Aristotle went to Pella, the Macedonian capital, where he became the tutor of the king's young son Alexander, later known as Alexander the Great. In 335, when Alexander became king, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his own school, the Lyceum

Aristotle's works were lost in the West after the decline of Rome, but during the 9th Century A.D., Arab scholars introduced Aristotle, in Arabic translation, to the Islamic world. In the 13th Century, the Latin West renewed its interest in Aristotle's work, and Saint Thomas Aquinas found in it a philosophical foundation for Christian thought. The influence of Aristotle's philosophy has been pervasive; it has even helped to shape modern language and common sense.

Aristotle died in 322 B.C.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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This translation of Metaphysics follows the Rutgers Univ. Press translation by Sachs (St. John's College, Maryland) of Aristotle's Physics (CH, Nov'95), and like it, attempts to provide English words that more concretely picture their ancient Greek approximations. Sachs's translation resembles classic medieval Latin translations because he tries to provide a one-to-one correspondence between words in the original Greek with words in English, rather than to translate "holistically," as it were. His translation differs, however, in its attempt to eschew abstractions in favor of more concrete terms. Although this latter method seems desirable, it results in a translation that reads much less smoothly than the more familiar translation of W.D. Ross. Sachs chooses the term "thinghood," for example, to render ousia in Aristotle's Greek, rather than "substance," as in Ross. Like any English rendition of an ancient text, Sachs's translation takes some getting used to, but after reading through several dozen pages of text, the flow of ideas from Aristotle himself begins to take hold quite well. The book contains an excellent introduction, Greek and English glossaries, very useful notes, a short bibliography, and a brief index primarily highlighting names and terms in the introductory sections. Recommended for general readers, students, and scholars of Aristotle. P. A. Streveler; West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Preface	p. v
Note on Second Edition	p. vi
Metaphysics Book Gamma	p. x
Chapter 1 p. 1
Chapter 2 p. 1
Chapter 3 p. 6
Chapter 4 p. 8
Chapter 5 p. 16
Chapter 6 p. 21
Chapter 7 p. 23
Chapter 8 p. 25
Metaphysics Book Delta	p. 27
Chapter 1 p. 27
Chapter 2 p. 28
Chapter 3 p. 31
Chapter 4 p. 32
Chapter 5 p. 34
Chapter 6 p. 35
Chapter 7 p. 39
Chapter 8 p. 41
Chapter 9 p. 41
Chapter 10 p. 43
Chapter 11 p. 44
Chapter 12 p. 46
Chapter 13 p. 48
Chapter 14 p. 49
Chapter 15 p. 51
Chapter 16 p. 53
Chapter 17 p. 54
Chapter 18 p. 55
Chapter 19 p. 56
Chapter 20 p. 56
Chapter 21 p. 56
Chapter 22 p. 57
Chapter 23 p. 58
Chapter 24 p. 59
Chapter 26 p. 60
Chapter 25 p. 60
Chapter 27 p. 61
Chapter 28 p. 62
Chapter 29 p. 63
Chapter 30 p. 64
Metaphysics Book Epsilon	p. 66
Chapter 1 p. 66
Chapter 2 p. 68
Chapter 3 p. 71
Chapter 4 p. 72
Notes	p. 75
Further Comments (1992)	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 227
Glossary	p. 239
Index Locorum	p. 241
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 251

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