All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake.

Aristotle. Aristotle's Metaphysics, ed. W.D. Ross. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1924. The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.

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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities.

Aristotle is referring to the Pythagoreans and Platonists, but seems as usual to misrepresent their views. His object in this section is to show that the ...

Thought is sense-perception, and sense-perception physical alteration, that they say that the impression given through sense-perception is necessarily true.

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[987b] [1] And when Socrates, disregarding the physical universe and confining his study to moral questions, sought in this sphere for the universal and was ...