This is a new translation, with introduction, commentary, and an explanatory glossary.
'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 in
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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 *
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Introduction
Note on Aristotle's Central Vocabulary
Book I Beginnings
Book II, Chapter 1-3 Causes
Chapters 4-9 Chance and Necessity
Book III, Chapters 1-3 Motion
Chapters 4-8 The Infinite
Book IV, Chapters 1-5 Place
Chapters 6-9 The Void
Chapters 10-14 Time
Book V Motions as Wholes
Book VI Internal Structure of Motions
Book VII Relation of Mover and Moved
Book VIII, Chapters 1-6 Deduction of Motionless First Mover
Chapters 7-10 The First Motion
