PHIL7788 · Philosophy
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
The course will be devoted to one of the rarest, most excellent, and most difficult philosophical texts ever written. Aristotle's <i>Metaphysics</i> presents a profound and profoundly influential answer to the question What is being? But even apart from his answer, the Philosopher reveals his greatness as a thinker by the way he approaches the question of being: what does the question pre-suppose? What does it imply for nature, knowledge and language? How can the question of being be answered when all we experience are individual beings?
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Organization
4.8 / 5
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Challenge
4.9 / 5
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Attendance
4.7 / 5
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Assignments
4.8 / 5
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Weekly effort
~5
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Spring 2025
1 sectionSpring 2023
1 section