Aristotle's Metaphysics / Edition 1

by Aristotle, Joe Sachs

Overview

Joe Sachs has followed up his brilliant translation of Aristotle's Physics 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781888009033
Publisher:	Green Lion Press
Publication date:	03/01/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	365
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Arthur Madigan, S.J., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Translation; Commentary; Notes on the Text and Translation; Bibliography; Glossaries; Indexes.