 | Aristotle - Philosophy - 1908 - 348 pages
...purely fanciful. BOOK I (A) CHAPTER I ALL men by nature desire to know. An indication of this g8oa is the delight we take in our senses ; for even apart...themselves ; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer 25 sight... | |
 | Aristotle - Philosophy - 1908 - 348 pages
...purely fanciful. XV BOOK I (A) CHAPTER I ALL men by nature desire to know. An indication of this 98oa is the delight we take in our senses ; for even apart...themselves ; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer 25 sight... | |
 | Matthew Thompson McClure - Logic - 1925 - 508 pages
...cause of earthtllipse? These :I know their wo important rerum cogthe reason why things Metaphysics . "All men by nature desire to know. An indication of...themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer sight... | |
 | Charles Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre - Peace - 1927 - 392 pages
...while science as a whole is similarly related as originative source to the whole body of fact. 14. All men by nature desire to know. An indication of...themselves ; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer sight... | |
 | John Henry Muirhead - Philosophy - 1928 - 214 pages
...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... | |
 | John Henry Muirhead - Philosophy - 1928 - 216 pages
...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... | |
 | Moritz Schlick - Science - 1978 - 418 pages
...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 - Philosophy - 1990 - 384 pages
...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 - Philosophy - 1988 - 356 pages
...book of this sort would be a help to them. I The desire to understand Aristotle's Metaphysics begins: All men by nature desire to know. An indication of...themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer sight... | |
 | Poolla Tirupati Raju, S. S. Rama Rao Pappu - Philosophy - 1988 - 224 pages
...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,... | |
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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. 
