TY - BOOK ID - 25876658 TI - Aristotle: the desire to understand PY - 1988 SN - 0521345235 9780521347624 0521347629 9780521345231 9780511570612 0511570619 9781107398481 1107398487 9781461949077 1461949076 9781139886246 113988624X 1107384761 1107390060 1107383625 110738723X PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Aristotle KW - Aristotle. KW - Aristoteles KW - Aristote KW - Aristotile KW - Aristoteles. KW - Arisṭāṭṭil KW - Aristo, KW - Aristotel KW - Aristotele KW - Aristóteles, KW - Aristòtil KW - Arisṭū KW - Arisṭūṭālīs KW - Arisutoteresu KW - Arystoteles KW - Ya-li-shih-to-te KW - Ya-li-ssu-to-te KW - Yalishiduode KW - Yalisiduode KW - Ἀριστοτέλης KW - Αριστοτέλης KW - Аристотел KW - ארסטו KW - אריםטו KW - אריסטו KW - אריסטוטלס KW - אריסטוטלוס KW - אריסטוטליס KW - أرسطاطاليس KW - أرسططاليس KW - أرسطو KW - أرسطوطالس KW - أرسطوطاليس KW - ابن رشد KW - اريسطو KW - Pseudo Aristotele KW - Pseudo-Aristotle KW - アリストテレス KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25876658 AB - This is a 1988 philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself starts. The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature desire to know. But what is it for us to be animated by this desire in this world? What is it for a creature to have a nature; what is our human nature; what must the world be like to be intelligible; and what must we be like to understand it systematically? Through a consideration of these questions Professor Lear introduces us to the essence of Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts - selected from the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics and from the biological and logical works. The book is written in a direct, lucid style which engages the reader with the themes in an active, participatory manner. ER -