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Letting Go of the Prime Mover: Interpreting Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Letting Go of the Prime Mover: Interpreting Aristotle’s Metaphysics

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Studying ancient philosophical works might seem to many students like an antiquated endeavor, akin to reading Euclid’s Elements or Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy when compared to the empirical sciences. However, in philosophy, especially metaphysics, I’ve realized this is . . .

Studying ancient philosophical works might seem to many students like an antiquated endeavor, akin to reading Euclid’s Elements or Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy when compared to the empirical sciences. However, in philosophy, especially metaphysics, I’ve realized this is not the case. Metaphysics, which inherently involves thinking beyond, yet still accounting for, our empirical […]

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