Metaphysics - Aristotle

[Anonymous No.14892361]

This is torture.

[Anonymous No.14892369]

>>14892361
no, it's Metaphysics by Aristotle.

[Anonymous No.14892393]

>>14892361
imagine the person who had to translate it

[Anonymous No.14892446]

>>14892361
You can tell philosophy is a subject for midwits from the original text being preferred instead of a modern textbook. No one reads Newton's Principia or even Darwin's Origin they read a recent textbook to learn calculus or evolution since the sciences don't have a fetish for a specific author over the idea. That's something philosophy shares with literature

[Anonymous No.14892471]

>>14892446
The nature of the subject matter doesn't allow for the same formulaic precision as the sciences have. That doesn't detract from the value of the undertaking and if you would bother to read instead of just the book coers, you would know this.

[Anonymous No.14892481]

>>14892393
Reading it in my native language
>pic related

>>14892471
*covers

[Anonymous No.14892493]

>>14892471
This doesn't even make any sense. If the sciences could be expressed with "formulaic precision" you wouldn't need modern textbooks since they would be same thing as the original texts. The sciences and especially math have a real truth behind them that allows multiple ways of explanation of the same thing. Any explanation of Aristotle loses something because most of what he's saying is bound up in his specific viewpoint

[Anonymous No.14892537]

>>14892493
>STEMfag can't read
Color me suprised

[Anonymous No.14893209]

But am I doing it wrong bros? Would the pain be ameliorated if I read other works first? Secondary lit? Dry prose is no problem for me, really not, but I've never had such trouble extracting the essence from a text as now.

[Anonymous No.14893808]

>>14892361
read Werner Jaeger

[Anonymous No.14893813]

sorry if the literal peak of human intellectual achievement isn't easy enough for you to understand