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Metaphysics
Aristotle · c. 340 BCE · translated by Hugh Tredennick
"All men by nature desire to know." Fourteen books on being, substance, and the Prime Mover that moves without being moved.
108,339 words · 57 pages · about 8 h 12 min of reading
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