false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172692260m/208036.jpg 208036 30 Joe Sachs has followed up his success with his translation of Aristotle's Physics, published by Rutgers University Press, with a new translation of Metaphysics. Sachs's translations bring distinguished new light onto Aristotle's works, which are foundational to history of science. Sachs translates Aristotle with an authenticity that was lost when Aristotle was translated into Latin and abstract Latin words came to stand for concepts Aristotle expressed with phrases in everyday Greek language. When the works began being translated into English, those abstract Latin words or their cognates were used, thus suggesting a level of jargon and abstraction, and in some cases misleading interpretation, which was not Aristotle's language or style. These important new translations open up Aristotle's original thought to readers. 2479557 1924 Metaphysics total:359|5:109|4:103|3:107|2:31|1:9| 359 1349 551 26 0 0 false false Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 23:56:33 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 11:56:28 -0700 2008
Prime Mover, Paragon of Thinkers

The prime mover is as such, we learn in Metaphysics, because its thoughts are the cause of motion in all that is beautiful (1072a.26-29) and are thoughts of itself, for “its thinking is a thinking o...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 20 02:32:07 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 02:43:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 15 08:36:07 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 23 09:51:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri May 15 11:36:39 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 11:38:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 10 19:50:38 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 19:52:53 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Feb 17 09:06:49 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 09:14:15 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Dec 07 09:53:30 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 09:54:25 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Feb 26 18:47:41 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 18:47:41 -0800 2009
also Art of Rhetoric
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well, duh!

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still good stuff of course.

]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 07 18:28:50 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 01 14:43:16 -0700 2009 Metaphysics? I believe so, yes. ]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 02 11:23:39 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 11:24:39 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Apr 29 06:31:52 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 29 06:33:08 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=208036