 All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight.  The Works of Aristotle - Página 980por Aristotle - 1908Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre - 1927 - 392 páginas
...originative source to the whole body of fact. 14. All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses ; for even apart...even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer sight to almost everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and... | |
 | John Henry Muirhead - 1928 - 216 páginas
...prefaces his great work on Metaphysics : All men by nature desire to know ; an indication of which is the delight we take in our senses : for even apart from their use' The illustration of the camera seems singularly unfortunate. Whether the camera came into use... | |
 | John Henry Muirhead - 1928 - 214 páginas
...Aristotle prefaces his great work on Metaphysics: All men by nature desire to know; an indication of which is the delight we take in our senses: for even apart from their use1 The illustration of the camera seems singularly unfortunate. Whether the camera came into use... | |
 | Ernst Cassirer - 1944 - 254 páginas
...determined by and impregnated with this tendency. All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart...view to action, but even when we are not going to do anythrng we prefer seeing to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all senses, makes us... | |
 | Moritz Schlick - 1978 - 418 páginas
...namely the aesthetic, and the stage has been reached of which Aristotle already says5: "We take delight in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness...themselves; and above all others the sense of sight". This stage could develop only once the creature's adaptation to the external world had already extended... | |
 | David Summers - 1990 - 384 páginas
...knowledge, and this complicates the matter. Our natural delight in knowledge is evident in our love of our senses, "for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves." Here Aristotle has laid the base for the argument that follows, saying that we are aware of our senses... | |
 | Jonathan Lear - 1988 - 356 páginas
...understand Aristotle's Metaphysics begins: All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart...even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer sight to almost everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and... | |
 | Poolla Tirupati Raju, S. S. Rama Rao Pappu - 1988 - 224 páginas
...philosophers before and after him, he analyses knowing on the model of seeing, and draws our attention to "the delight we take in our senses; for even apart...for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight."2 Aristotle is therefore doing metaphysics by way of experiencing, or in order to experience,... | |
 | Gayle L. Ormiston, Alan D. Schrift - 1990 - 322 páginas
...paragraph of the Metaphysics reads as follows: "All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart...even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us... | |
 | Bernard J. F. Lonergan, Frederick E. Crowe, Robert M. Doran - 1988 - 492 páginas
...1, 1, 980a 21-26. Aristotle's text reads: 'All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart...even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us... | |
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