Aristotle's Metaphysics (week 3)

Join us for weekly discussions of Aristotle's incredibly influential musings on substance, causation, hylomorphism, and other fun abstractions.

Reading for this meeting: Book IV (Gamma)

Make sure to come having already read this as well as the preceding books of the Metaphysics. The focus of this meeting is to help each other understand Aristotle's text and its main arguments, so please try to avoid bringing up other ideas if they are not to that end. Feel free to talk about whatever you want after the official meeting time ends.

I'll be reading the 1999 translation by Joe Sachs. Feel free to use any translation or edition—comparing differing translations can help with getting a feel for the meanings of terms in the original Greek. There are several versions for free online, including this one.

We'll be meeting at Farm.One, which a brewery and indoor farm in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

This event is free, but we're still sort of socially obligated to purchase something (need not be alcohol), and Farm.One is a cool place that we should support! The space is also a quiet cafe between 10am and 12pm, so get there early if you prefer coffee to beer (and maybe to finish up the reading)!