Aristotle, the Book Alpha Meizon (I) of Metaphysics
Marian Andrzej Wesoły
We present a new Polish translation of the book Alpha Meizon (I) of Aristotle᾿s Metaphysics, which attempts to express, more accurately and, possibly, more faithfully, its conceptual content and argumentative sequence. We have translated it both on the basis of the new edition of this book and on the recent studies on Aristotle᾿s Metaphysics. A brief introduction, giving thematic headings to individual chapters of this difficult text, as well as concise substantive footnotes, are meant to be helpful to the reader. We want to show the complex sequence of Aristotle᾿s arguments in his project of wisdom as the theory of first principles. This book Alpha Meizon is an important source for reconstruction of the early Greek and Platonic ‘unwritten’ philosophy.
DOI: 10.37240/AHFiMS.2022.66.67.13
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Keywords: Aristotle · Metaphysics · Alpha Meizon · new Polish translation
Marian Andrzej Wesoły – Prof. ordinarius in the Institute of Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Th e Head of the Research Center for Ancient and Byzantine Philosophy. Editor-in-chief of the PEITHO journal. Author of over 150 publications, mainly on the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle and Greek philosophy in Byzantium. He also translated into Polish several Hippocratic writings (with an introduction and a commentary) and the fragments and doxography of Presocratics (in print).
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