Book · 350 BC · Nonfiction

The Metaphysics

Name: The Metaphysics
Author: Aristotle

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 459 pages

★ 7.6 editorial score

Aristotle asks what a thing most fundamentally is, and the answer runs through matter, form, and cause to a god who moves the whole world simply by being loved.

Genre

Philosophy

Medium

Treatise

Subject

Metaphysics Being Ontology

Time

350 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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Quote · 1893

“Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.”

F.H. Bradley