The MetaphysicsBy: Aristotle Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation stones of western thought, translated from the with an introduction by Hugh Lawson Tancred in Penguin Classics. The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard headed view that all processes are