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形而上学(又称玄学)亦即对世界本体以及人自身存在本质的探寻发轫于上古的“轴心时代”,这种探寻构成了各民族文化的底里。亚里士多德全面系统地整合了古希腊数百年自然哲学与精神哲学的成果,进而提出“存在是什么”的问题,对存在本身进行追问,从而将古希腊哲学提升到纯粹形而上学的层面。亚里士多德由此展开对存在的分类,规定了实体的存在才是真正独立的存在,而其他一切属性的存在乃至一切范畴的存在都因这一实体的存在而得以存在。
亚里士多德的本体论(或称存在论)是他对后世哲学的贡献,难怪黑格尔称其为古希腊多才、渊博深刻的天才。
内容简介
METAPHYSICS is one of the principal works of Aristotle and the first major work of the branch of philosophy with the same name. The principal subject is "being qua being", or being understood as being. It examines what can be asserted about anything that exists just because of its existence and not because of any special qualities it has. Also covered are different kinds of causation, form and matter, the existence of mathematical objects, and a prime- mover God.
The Metaphysics is considered to be one of the greatest philosophical works. Its influence on the Greeks, the Arabs, the scholastic philosophers and even writers such as Dante, was immense.
作者简介
ARISTOLE, (384 BC-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.
Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.
目录
BOOK I
BOOK II
BOOK III
BOOK IV
BOOK V
BOOK VI
BOOK VII
BOOK VIII
BOOK IX
BOOK X
BOOK XI
BOOK XII
BOOK XIII
BOOK XIV
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This implies that change was necessary; but he shows no cause of the necessity. But yet so far at least he alone speaks consistently; for he does not make some things perishable and others imperishable, but makes all perishable except the elements. The difficulty we are speaking of now is, why some things are perishable and others are not, if they consist of the same principles.
Let this suffice as proof of the fact that the principles cannot be the same. But if there are different principles, one difficulty is whether these also will be imperishable or perishable. For if they are perishable, evidently these also must consist of certain elements (for all things that perish, perish by being resolved into the elements of which they consist); so that it follows that prior to the principles there are other prinaples.
But this is impossible, whether the process has a limit or proceeds to infinity. Further, how will perishable things exist, if their principles are to be annulled? But if the principles are imperishable, why will things composed of some imperishable principles be perishable, while those composed of the others are imperishable? This is not probable, but is either impossible or needs much proof. Further, no one has even tried to maintain different principles; they maintain the same principles for all things. But they swallow the difficulty we stated first as if they took it to be something trifling.
(11) The inquiry that is both the hardest of all and the most necessary for knowledge of the truth is whether being and rutty are the substances of things, and whether each of them, without being anything else, is being or unity respectively, or we must inquire what being and unity are, with the implication that they have some other underlying nature. For some people think they are of the former, others think they are of the latter character. Plato and the Pythagoreans thought being and unity were nothing else.
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前言/序言
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西方人文经典读物:形而上学(英文版) [Metaphysics] 电子书 下载 mobi epub pdf txt
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8.对前人观点的进一步讨论与难点的质疑。
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亚里士多德关于哲学本性的观点:最高的科学是对最初本原和原因的思辨科学。人是由于好奇开始哲学思考,哲学思考是种为了摆脱无知的娱乐消遣,没有实用目的。为了自身存在才是最自由的。
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英文的,纸张质量也不错,推荐噢。京东的!
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著名的亚里士多德英译本,装帧不错,内容不错,很好的书啊
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3装帧精细
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什么是形而上学?
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“然而无形体的东西同样存在着”
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很好很强大 很好很轻松