Aristotle's MetaphysicsJoe 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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Ways of Writing and Ways of Being The Ordering and Content of Aristotles Inquiry | xi |
Ways of Interpreting The Distorting Lenses of Modern Philosophy and Commentary | xxvi |
Ways of Translating How and Why this Version Differs from Others | xxxiv |
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activity Anaxagoras animal argument Aristotle Aristotle's articulation at-work attributes being-at-work belong body Book bronze called Callias capable causes motion Chapter class of things clear comes coming-into-being composite concerns contemplative contraries contrariety definition Democritus demonstration derivative Descartes destructible dialectical dyad earth elements Empedocles Euclid's Elements everlasting everything example false genus happens Heracleitus human impossible incidental independent things indivisible infinite inquiry insofar Jacob Klein kind of knowledge kinds of thinghood magnitude material mathematical number mathematical things means meant Metaphysics motionless moved multitude nature necessary Nicomachean Ethics opposite ousia Parmenides particular perceptible things philosophic Plato Plato's possible Posterior Analytics potency potentially present primary prior Pythagoreans quarter tone reason relation sake sense separate similarly simply snub Socrates someone sort of thing soul source of motion speak specific difference spoken takes precedence thinking translation true turn underlying thing units universal virtue whole word