Physics - Couverture souple

Aristotle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1481274627 ISBN 13 : 9781481274623

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

The Cornerstone of Natural Philosophy from One of History’s Greatest Thinkers

For over a thousand years, Aristotle’s Physics was the definitive guide to understanding the natural world. This foundational work offers a systematic inquiry into the fundamental principles of reality—exploring concepts such as motion, time, space, matter, cause, and the infinite. It is not merely a textbook of physical science as we know it today, but a deeply philosophical investigation into how and why things exist and change.

Unlike modern scientific treatises, Physics is a blend of observation, logic, and metaphysical exploration. Aristotle lays out the questions that continue to animate philosophical debate: What is motion? Is time real or a construct? What does it mean for something to exist in space? In doing so, he constructs a framework that would shape intellectual thought in both the Islamic and Christian worlds for centuries to come.

Why this book matters:

• It’s the original text behind many core scientific and philosophical ideas

• Offers a deep dive into the ancient worldview of nature and causality

• Serves as a companion to Aristotle’s Metaphysics, On the Heavens, and Categories

• Helps modern readers understand how foundational ideas about time, change, and being were first formalized

Perfect for students of classical philosophy, history of science, and metaphysics, Physics is not a solved equation—but a brilliant map of the questions that would define Western thought for millennia.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, 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. Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian physics. In the zoological sciences, some of his observations were confirmed to be accurate only in the 19th century. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic. In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues (Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold"), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1481274627
• ISBN 13: 9781481274623
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
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