The Science Sought For … on Aristotle and Problem of Metaphysics (pt.1 – introduction)
This is introductory podcast in the series dealing with Aristotle’s Metaphysics through close reading of it’s fourth book (gamma). The aim is to show how ancient philosophy dealt with most immediate reality disclosed to us in experience, and how it proves to be utterly abundant with meaning and mystery. In this introduction we explore the origin and the meaning of the expression ta meta ta fysika and it’s use in every day life, as well as some obstacles postmodern men have to face in approaching it.
Branko Malić
Hi Branko,
sincere thanks for this exposition. Your website is really the snickers chocolate bar in my school breaks from academic nonsense these days. Looking forward to the rest.
Best
Simon
Thanks Simon, I’ll try to put out part three next week. Aristotle requires a lot of focus to get things right.
Hey Branko,
You must’ve read a lot of books on Aristotle! I know you mentioned Joseph Owens’s, and I see he’s written like The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics: A Study in the Greek Background of Mediaeval Thought, Aristotle, the collected papers of Joseph Owens and Aristotle’s gradations of Being in Metaphysics E-Z?
I don’t really buy books or read much of anything so I can’t tell if this is like expensive or too expensive? ( not that I’m awfully poor or anything like that just cheep i guess . It might also be because I don’t really have a habit of reading, I can’t be sure I’ll be focused or motivated to read it when I actually get my hands on it. I mean I dont want to buy something super expensive and end up having it as a mere trophy)
Other than Joseph Owens, I’d like hear few other names whose worked on Aristotle’s Metaphysics please. That’d be great!
The first book you mention is excellent albeit a bit dated. It can’t be cheap, but if you’re not squemish about, ahm, lending pdf books from internet: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=3907B2C97E0B20043AA6130B4B46B46A
I generally don’t read that much of secondary literature and the things that I have read are mostly classics that are now considered dated like Ingmar Duhring’s “Aristoteles”.
I mainly read Aristotle himself or other thinkers who use his insights like Proclus or Aquinas.
Branko my man! You are a life saver:)