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Metaphysics

Aristotle

The work in which Aristotle seeks “first science”: the study of being qua being, of the highest causes and principles and of divine substance. It opens with the famous sentence “all men by nature desire to know” and with a history of earlier philosophy read as a progressive discovery of the four causes. Book B sets out the puzzles; Γ defends the principle of non-contradiction; Δ is a philosophical lexicon; Z, H and Θ, the core, examine substance, form, matter, actuality and potentiality; Λ culminates in the first unmoved mover, “thinking of thinking”; M and N criticise the Platonic theory of Forms and numbers. No work has influenced Western, Islamic and Jewish metaphysics more.

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Translated by Patricio de Azcárate · 143 chapters · 12 h reading

  1. 1Introducción · 118′
  2. 2Introducción · 224′
  3. 3Introducción · 320′
  4. 4Introducción · 422′
  5. 5Introducción · 513′
  6. 6I.6′
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  9. 9IV.6′
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Ancient Greek

· 16 chapters · 49 h reading

  1. 1Aristotelis Opera, vol. II (ed. Bekker, 1831): texto griego de Bekker 791–1462 (opúsculos, Metafísica, Éticas, Política, Retórica, Poética)3′
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