The Metaphysics /
Aristotle ; with an English translation by Hugh Tredennick.
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| Summary: | "Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343-2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of 'Peripatetics'), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows: I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV Metaphysics: on being as being. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics." -- Publisher description. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Ancient Greek Greek and English on opposite pages. |
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London : New York :
W. Heinemann ;
1933-1935.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, |
| Series: | Aristotle. Works. 1926 ;
17-18. Loeb classical library ; 271, 287. |
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| Notes: | Vol. 2 includes also the spurious Oeconomica and the Magna moralia, with an English translation by G.Cyril Armstrong. Later reprints have imprint: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : W. Heinemann. Includes bibliographical references (xxvi.v. 1, p. xxxv-xxxvi) and index. Also issued online. Physical description: 2 v. ; 17 cm. more |
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Metaphysics .. Metaphysics .. Metaphysics .. Metaphysics .. |
| ISBN: | 0674992997 (pbk., v.1) 9780674992993 (pbk., v.1) 0674993179 (pbk., v.2) 9780674993174 (pbk., v.2) |
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