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Métaphysique. Alpha, est le premier des quatorze livres d'Aristote réunis sous le titre de Métaphysique par le péripatéticien Andronicus de Rhodes au Ier siècle avant J.-C. Il est à redécouvrir dans cette traduction inédite de Jean-François Pradeau, véritable événement éditorial et philosophique. "Tous les hommes désirent par nature connaître." écrit Aristote en ouverture de cette oeuvre fondatrice qui se présente comme une introduction générale à l'étude de la science qu'il nomme "la philosophie première". Aristote s'attache à définir et hiérarchiser les différents domaines de la connaissance : le savoir empirique, la capacité technique et la science. La connaissance première pour Aristote est celle de la sagesse car les spéculations philosophiques, qui ont pour origines l'étonnement et l'admiration et sont à elles-mêmes leur propre fin, constituent la seule science véritablement libre. Ce texte constitue également la toute première histoire de la philosophie occidentale, de Thalès à Platon.
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"The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues. The volumes in the series have been widely welcomed and favourably reviewed. Important new titles are being added to the series, and a number of well-established volumes are being reissued with revisions and/or supplementary material.0Lindsay Judson provides a rigorous translation of the twelfth book (Lambda) of Aristotle's Metaphysics and a detailed philosophical commentary. Lambda is an outline for a much more extended work in metaphysics - or more accurately, since Aristotle does not use the term 'metaphysics', in what he calls 'first philosophy', the inquiry into 'the principles and causes of all things'. Aristotle discusses the principles of natural and changeable substances, which include form, matter, privation and efficient cause; he argues that principles of this sort are, at least by analogy, the principles of non-substantial items as well. In the second half of the book he turns to unchanging, immaterial substances, first arguing that there must be at least one such substance, which he calls 'God', to act as the 'prime unmoved mover', the source of all change in the natural world. He then explores the nature of God and its activity of thinking (it is the fullest exposition there is of Aristotle's extraordinary and very difficult conception of his supreme god, its goodness, and its activity), and in the course of arguing for a plurality of immaterial unmoved movers he provides important evidence for the leading astronomical theory of his day (by Eudoxus) and for his own highly impressive0cosmology. The commentary on each chapter or pair of chapters is preceded by a Prologue, which sets the scene for Aristotle's often very compressed discussion, and explores the general issues raised by that discussion."--
Metaphysics --- Aristotle. --- First philosophy --- Early works to 1800 --- Metaphysics - Early works to 1800 --- Aristotle. - Metaphysics. - Book 12
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