Metaphysics
Forthcoming The translation of this work is in preparation and will be published in the library.
Introduction
'All human beings by nature desire to know.' So begins the Metaphysics, Aristotle's inquiry into what he called first philosophy: the study of being as being. He reviews earlier Greek thinkers' search for the principles of things, sets out the four causes, states the principle of non-contradiction, and examines substance, form and matter, potentiality and actuality, rising at last to the unmoved mover, a god eternally thinking itself. The title originally meant only 'after the Physics', yet it gave its name to a whole branch of philosophy.