Metaphysics (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A First Philosophy Treatise on Being, Substance, Causation, Form and Matter, and the Prime MoverBy Aristotle
Length13h 29m
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Aristotle's Metaphysics is a foundational inquiry into "being qua being," examining substance, causation, potentiality and actuality, unity, and the divine first principle. Composed from treatises likely arranged after the Physics, its style is dense, analytic, and dialectical, moving through inherited problems from Plato, the Presocratics, and earlier natural philosophy. Rather than offering mythic speculation, the work establishes metaphysics as a rigorous science of first causes and ultimate explanation. Aristotle, student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, wrote from within—and against—the intellectual atmosphere of the Academy. His biological researches, logical writings, and ethical investigations all inform this book's insistence that reality must be understood through form, matter, purpose, and intelligible structure. Metaphysics reflects a thinker seeking to preserve Plato's concern with universals while grounding philosophy in the concrete substances of the world. This book is indispensable for readers of philosophy, theology, classics, and intellectual history. Though demanding, it rewards patient study with unmatched insight into causality, existence, and knowledge. Anyone wishing to understand Western metaphysics at its source should read it carefully.
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GenrePhilosophy
Length13 hrs 29 mins
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Publish dateFeb 6, 2019
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