Abstract
A philosophical introduction to Aristotle. Its author starts where Aristotle himself starts.
The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature desire to know. But what is it for us to be animated by this desire in this world? What is it for a creature to have a nature? What is our, human, nature? What must the world be like to be intelligible, and what must we be like to understand it systematically? Through a consideration of these questions the author introduces us to the essence of Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts - selected from the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics and from the biological and logical works.