دانلود کتاب Aristotle and the problem of Metaphysics

The following article was first given as a lecture before the Kant Society at the Tecnical University of Borlin on June 5. 1959.

"More philosophical perhaps than what Aristotle wanted to accomplish was what he actually did accomplish in spite of himself. With him not doing is still doing, and silence is a word that goes far. The impossibility of intuition becomes the reality of dialectic. The impossibility of immobility becomes the reality of mobility. The impossibility of theology becomes the reality of ontology. With Aristotle the "sought-after science" becomes the science of seeking. The incompleted metaphysics becomes the metaphysics of the incompleteness of the world and of man which calls man to creative word and action. We can have a true estimate of the positive content of Aristotelian metaphysics only if we no longer expect something which is not to be found in it, namely a system. For again the impossibility of the system is the reality of research, the zetesis. Perhaps in this reversing which is at work in the metaphysics of Aristotle we recognize the paradox which arises again and again and which dwells in every philosopher; since he sought and yet did not find what he was seeking, in his very search he finds something he was not looking for."