Aristotle's Physics. A guided study Joe Sachs Aristotles Physics Sachs's translation and commentary rescue Aristotle's text from the rigid, pedantic, and misleading versions that have until now obscured his thought. Thanks to Sachs's superb guidance, the Physics comes alive as a profound dialectical inquiry whose insights into the enduring questions about nature, cause, change, time, and the 'infinite' are still pertinent today. Using such guided studies in class has been exhilarating both for myself and my students."?? Leon R. Kass, The Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago Aristotle? s Physics is the only complete and coherent book we have from the ancient world in which a thinker of the first rank seeks to say something abou

Joe Sachs

ISBN 10: 0813521912 / ISBN 13: 9780813521916

Edité par Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1995

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Aristotle's Physics is one of the least studied "great books" physics has come to mean something entirely different than Aristotle's inquiry into nature, and stereotyped Medieval interpretations have buried the original text. Sach's translation is really the only one that I know of that attempts to take the reader back to the text itself. Sachs's translation and commentary rescue Aristotle's text from the rigid, pedantic, and misleading versions that have until now obscured his thought. Thanks to Sachs's superb guidance, the Physics comes alive as a profound dialectical inquiry whose insights into the enduring questions about nature, cause, change, time, and the 'infinite' are still pertinent today. Using such guided studies in class has been exhilarating both for myself and my students."?? Leon R. Kass, The Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago Aristotle? s Physics is the only complete and coherent book we have from the ancient world in which a thinker of the first rank seeks to say something about nature as a whole. For centuries, Aristotle? s inquiry into the causes and conditions of motion and rest dominated science and philosophy. To understand the intellectual assumptions of a powerful world view? and the roots of the Scientific Revolution? reading Aristotle is critical. Yet existing translations of Aristotle? s Physics have made it difficult to understand either Aristotle? s originality or the lasting value of his work. In this volume in the Masterworks of Discovery series, Joe Sachs provides a new plain-spoken English translation of all of Aristotle? s classic treatise and accompanies it with a long interpretive introduction, a running explication of the text, and a helpful glossary. He succeeds brilliantly in fulfilling the aim of this innovative series: to give the general reader the tools to read and understand a masterwork of scientific discovery. Joe Sachs has taught for twenty years at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, where from 1990 to 1992 he held the NEH Chair in Ancient Thought. Aristotle's Physics. A guided study Aristotle's Physics. A guided study Joe Sachs Übersetzer: Joe Sachs Verlagsort: New Brunswick, NJ Sprache: englisch Geisteswissenschaften Philosoph Philosophie Altertum Antike Naturwissenschaften Physik Astronomie ISBN-10: 0-8135-2191-2 0813521912 ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-2191-6 9780813521916 In englischer Sprache. 278 pages.

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• Titre: Aristotle's Physics. A guided study Joe Sachs Aristotles Physics Sachs's translation and commentary rescue Aristotle's text from the rigid, pedantic, and misleading versions that have until now obscured his thought. Thanks to Sachs's superb guidance, the Physics comes alive as a profound dialectical inquiry whose insights into the enduring questions about nature, cause, change, time, and the 'infinite' are still pertinent today. Using such guided studies in class has been exhilarating both for ...
• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0813521912
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780813521916
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1995.
• État de l'article: gut
• Poids: 2000 grammes

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Sachs's translation and commentary rescue Aristotle's text from the rigid, pedantic, and misleading versions that have until now obscured his thought. Thanks to Sachs's superb guidance, the Physics comes alive as a profound dialectical inquiry whose insights into the enduring questions about nature, cause, change, time, and the 'infinite' are still pertinent today. Using such guided studies in class has been exhilarating both for myself and my students." ― Leon R. Kass, The Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

Aristotle's Physics is the only complete and coherent book we have from the ancient world in which a thinker of the first rank seeks to say something about nature as a whole. For centuries, Aristotle's inquiry into the causes and conditions of motion and rest dominated science and philosophy. To understand the intellectual assumptions of a powerful world view―and the roots of the Scientific Revolution―reading Aristotle is critical. Yet existing translations of Aristotle's Physics have made it difficult to understand either Aristotle's originality or the lasting value of his work.

In this volume in the Masterworks of Discovery series, Joe Sachs provides a new plain-spoken English translation of all of Aristotle's classic treatise and accompanies it with a long interpretive introduction, a running explication of the text, and a helpful glossary. He succeeds brilliantly in fulfilling the aim of this innovative series: to give the general reader the tools to read and understand a masterwork of scientific discovery.

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Joe Sachs has taught for twenty years at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, where from 1990 to 1992 he held the NEH Chair in Ancient Thought.