Metaphysics

Name: Metaphysics
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ISBN: 9780140446197

ISBN-10: 0140446192

ISBN-13: 9780140446197

Edition: 1998

Authors: Aristotle, Hugh Lawson-Tancred, Hugh Lawson-Tancred

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In The Metaphysics , Aristotle laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy. Aristotle was always passionately interested in natural phenomena. Yet when he joined Plato's Academy as a 17-year-old in the mid-360s BC, he was taught the 'idealist' doctrine that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of the true reality. After a sharp reaction against Platonism, he achieved in The Metaphysics an extraordinary synthesis, integrating the natural and rational aspects of the world. In so doing he probed some of the deepest questions of philosophy: What is existence? How is change possible? Are there things which must exist for anything else to exist at all? The…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.83" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Hugh Lawson-Tancred was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He is a Departmental Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London.



Preface


Note on Second Edition


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Notes


Further Comments (1992)


Bibliography


Glossary


Index Locorum


Index of Names and Subjects