{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0732.tlg004.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg004.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0732.tlg004.local001","title":"In Aristotelis metaphysica commentaria","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Alexander of Aphrodisias","authorityName":"ALEXANDER Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0732-alexander/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0732-alexander/","editors":["Michael Hayduck"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"In Aristotelis Metaphysica Commentaria","edition":null,"publisher":"Reimer","place":"Berlin","date":"1891","volume":"1.1","series":"Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca","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":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":["University of Leipzig"],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/p1commentariainari01bero","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Alexander Of Aphrodisias. In Aristotelis metaphysica commentaria. ed. Michael Hayduck. In Aristotelis Metaphysica Commentaria, Berlin, Reimer, 1891. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0732.tlg004.local001","excerpt":"p. 980a21 Πάντες ἄνθ.ρωποι τοῦ εἰδέναι ὀρέγοντι φύσει. Ἐπειδὴ ἡ γνῶσις τελειότης ἐστὶ τῆς ψυχῆς. καθόλου μὲν τῆς ἀπλῶς γιγνωσκούσης, μᾶλλον δὲ τῆς λογικῆς, καὶ ταύτης ἔτι μᾶλλον ἧς θεωρία τὸ τέλος, πᾶσα δὲ τελειότης ἑκάστου τὸ ἑκάστου ἀγαθόν ἐστιν, ἐν δὲ τῷ ἀγαθῷ ἕκαστον ἔχει τὸ εἶναί τε καὶ σώζεσθαι, διὰ τοῦτο καθόλου ἐπήγαγεν ὅτι πάντες ἄνθρωποι τοῦ εἰδέναι ὀρέγονται φύσει, τουτέστιν αὐτοφυῶς ἐρῶσι τῆς γνώσεως ὡς ταύτης τελειότητος οὔσης αὐτῶν. σημεῖον δὲ τούτου παρέθετο ἐναργέστατον τὴν πρὸς τὰς αἰσθήσεις φιλίαν· χαίρομεν γὰρ ταῖς αἰσθήσεσιν, ἐπειδὴ δι’ αὐτῶν τὴν τῶν αἰσθητῶν πραγμάτων λαμβάνομεν γνῶσιν. ἀλλὰ καὶ χωρὶς τούτου αὐτὰς δι’ ἑαυτὰς ἀγαπῶμεν τὰς αἰσθήσεις, καὶ μάλιστα πλέον τῶν ἄλλων τὴν ὁρατικὴν αἴσθησιν· καὶ γὰρ χωρὶς τοῦ πράττειν καὶ ἐνεργεῖν τὸ ὁρᾶν αἱρούμεθα ἀντὶ πάντων ὡς εἰπεῖν τῶν ἄλλων. αὕτη οὖν ἡ ὁρατικὴ μάλιστα τῶν ἄλλων αἰσθήσεων ποεῖ ἡμᾶς γνωρίζειν οὐ μόνον…","divisions":[{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΣΙΕΩΣ ΥΠΟΜΝΗΜΑ ΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΜΕΙΖΟΝ Α 3 Bonitz. 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