Aristotle

Otfried Höffe is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen and the author of many books, including Immanuel Kant, also published by SUNY Press.

• List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations and Method of Citation Preface PART I: "THE PHILOSOPHER"? 1. The Man and His Work 1.1 The Man1.2 The Work 2. Researcher, Scholar, and Philosopher PART II: KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE 3. The Phenomenology of Knowledge 3.1 Propaedeutic?3.2 An Epistemic Hierarchy3.3 Freedom and Self-realization 4. Forms of Rationality 4.1 Syllogistics4.2 Dialectic (Topics)4.3 Rhetoric4.4 Poetics: Tragedy 5. Proofs and Principles 5.1 A Critique of Demonstrative Reason5.2 Axioms and Other Principles5.3 Induction and Mind 6. Four Methodical Maxims 6.1 Establishing the Phenomena6.2 Doctrines6.3 Difficulties6.4 Linguistic Analysis PART III: PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS 7. Natural Philosophy 7.1 Aristotelian Natural Science7.2 Motion7.3 The Four Causes7.4 Continuum, the Infinite, Place, and Time 8. Biology and Psychology 8.1 Aristotle the Zoologist8.2 Teleonomy: Organisms, Procreation, and Heredity8.3 The Soul 9. First Philosophy, or Metaphysics 10. Cosmology and Theology 10.1 Meta-physics10.2 The Cosmological Concept of God10.3 An Ethical Concept of God? 11. Ontology and Language 11.1 Categories11.2 Substance11.3 Aristotle’s Critique of Plato's Ideas11.4 On Language PART IV: ETHICS AND POLITICS 12. Practical Philosophy 12.1 The Autonomy of Ethics12.2 The Goal Is Action12.3 Outline Knowledge 13. Theory of Action 13.1 The Basic Concept of Desire13.2 Decision and Power of Judgment13.3 Weakness of the Will13.4 Does Aristotle Know the Concept of Will? 14. The Good Life 14.1 The Principle of Happiness14.2 The Virtues of Character14.3 Justice, Natural Law, and Equity14.4 Theoretical or Political Existence? 15. Political Anthropology 15.1 The Relevance of the Politics15.2 "Political by Nature"15.3 Friendship and Other Prerequisites 16. Political Justice 16.1 Elementary Inequalities16.2 Rule of the Free over the Free16.3 Democracy or Polity? PART V: The RECEPTION 17. Antiquity and the Middle Ages 17.1 Antiquity17.2 Christianity, Islam, and Judaism17.3 The Great Aristotelian Renaissance 18. The Modern Age and the Present 18.1 Detachment and Renewed Interest18.2 Aristotle Research and Neo-Aristotelianisms Chronology Bibliography Index of Personal Names General Index