Reading Aristotle

Argument and Exposition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition argues that Aristotle’s treatises must be approached as progressive unfoldings of a unified position that may extend over a single book, an entire treatise, or across several works. Contributors demonstrate that Aristotle relies on both explanatory and expository principles. Explanatory principles include familiar doctrines such as the four causes, actuality’s priority over potentiality and nature’s doing nothing in vain. Expository principles are at least as important. They pertain to proper sequence, pedagogical method, the role of reputable views and the opinions of predecessors, the equivocity of key explanatory terms, and the need to scrupulously observe distinctions between the different sciences. A sensitivity to expository principles is crucial to understanding both particular arguments and entire treatises.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-08-03
Mått155 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt757 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophia Antiqua
Antal sidor388
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004329584

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William Wians, Ph.D., (Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College and adjunct professor at Boston College) writes on ancient philosophy. His edited collection Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature was published by SUNY Press. A second volume is in preparation. Ron Polansky, Ph.D., (Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Duquesne University) has published on Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, and medical ethics, including monographs on Plato’s Theaetetus and Aristotle’s De Anima, and edited collections on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and bioethics. He has edited the journal Ancient Philosophy (Mathesis Publications) for thirty-six years.

AbbreviationsAbout the ContributorsIntroductionWilliam Wians and Ron Polansky1 Ways of Proving in AristotleMarco Zingano2 Aristotle’s Scientific MethodEdward C. Halper3 Aristotle’s Problemata-Style and Aural TextualityDiana Quarantotto4 Natural Things and Body: The Investigations of PhysicsHelen Lang5 Surrogate Principles and the Natural Order of Exposition in Aristotle’s De Caelo IIMariska Leunissen6 Arrangement and Exploratory Discourse in the Parva NaturaliaPhilip van der Eijk7 The Place of De Motu in Aristotle’s Natural PhilosophyAndrea Falcon8 Is Aristotle’s Account of Sexual Differentiation Inconsistent?William Wians9 The Concept of Ousia in Metaphysics Alpha, Beta and GammaVasilis Politis and Jun Su10 Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a Work of Practical ScienceRon Polansky11 Aristotle on the (Alleged) Inferiority of History to PoetryThornton C. Lockwood12 Aristotle on the Best Tragic Plot: Re-reading Poetics 13–14Malcolm HeathBibliographyIndex