{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg025.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg025.local001","title":"τὰ Μετὰ τὰ Φυσικά","titleGreek":"τὰ Μετὰ τὰ Φυσικά","alternateTitles":["Metaphysics","Métaphysique","Metaphysique","Μετὰ τὰ φυσικά"],"author":"Aristotle","authorityName":"ARISTOTELES Phil. et CORPUS AR-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","editors":["William David Ross"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Aristotle's Metaphysics","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1924","volume":"1-2","series":"Oxford Classical Texts","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Digital Library Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/aristotlesmetaph0001aris/page/n171/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. τὰ Μετὰ τὰ Φυσικά. ed. William David Ross. Aristotle's Metaphysics, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg025.local001","excerpt":"πάντες ἄνθρωποι τοῦ εἰδέναι ὀρέγονται φύσει. σημεῖον δʼ ἡ τῶν αἰσθήσεων ἀγάπησις· καὶ γὰρ χωρὶς τῆς χρείας ἀγαπῶνται διʼ αὑτάς, καὶ μάλιστα τῶν ἄλλων ἡ διὰ τῶν ὀμμάτων. οὐ γὰρ μόνον ἵνα πράττωμεν ἀλλὰ καὶ μηθὲν μέλλοντες πράττειν τὸ ὁρᾶν αἱρούμεθα ἀντὶ πάντων ὡς εἰπεῖν τῶν ἄλλων. αἴτιον δʼ ὅτι μάλιστα ποιεῖ γνωρίζειν ἡμᾶς αὕτη τῶν αἰσθήσεων καὶ πολλὰς δηλοῖ διαφοράς. φύσει μὲν οὖν αἴσθησιν ἔχοντα γίγνεται τὰ ζῷα, ἐκ δὲ ταύτης τοῖς μὲν αὐτῶν οὐκ ἐγγίγνεται μνήμη, τοῖς δʼ ἐγγίγνεται. καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ταῦτα φρονιμώτερα καὶ μαθητικώτερα τῶν μὴ δυναμένων μνημονεύειν ἐστί, φρόνιμα μὲν ἄνευ τοῦ μανθάνειν ὅσα μὴ δύναται τῶν ψόφων ἀκούειν (οἷον μέλιττα κἂν εἴ τι τοιοῦτον ἄλλο γένος ζῴων ἔστι), μανθάνει δʼ ὅσα πρὸς τῇ μνήμῃ καὶ ταύτην ἔχει τὴν αἴσθησιν. τὰ μὲν οὖν ἄλλα ταῖς φαντασίαις ζῇ καὶ ταῖς μνήμαις, ἐμπειρίας δὲ μετέχει μικρόν· τὸ δὲ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος καὶ τέχνῃ καὶ λογισμοῖς. γίγνεται δʼ ἐκ…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/1-book-1/"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/2-book-2/"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/3-book-3/"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/4-book-4/"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/5-book-5/"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/6-book-6/"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/7-book-7/"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/8-book-8/"},{"label":"Book 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/9-book-9/"},{"label":"Book 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/10-book-10/"},{"label":"Book 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/11-book-11/"},{"label":"Book 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/12-book-12/"},{"label":"Book 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/13-book-13/"},{"label":"Book 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/14-book-14/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg025.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg025/local001.json.gz"}}