UID:
almahu_9949701198502882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004340084
Series Statement:
Philosophia antiqua ; v. 146
Content:
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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Front Matter /
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Introduction /
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Ways of Proving in Aristotle /
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Aristotle's Scientific Method /
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Aristotle's Problemata-Style and Aural Textuality /
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Natural Things and Body: The Investigations of Physics /
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Surrogate Principles and the Natural Order of Exposition in Aristotle's De Caelo II /
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Arrangement and Exploratory Discourse in the Parva Naturalia /
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The Place of the De Motu Animalium in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy /
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Is Aristotle's Account of Sexual Differentiation Inconsistent? /
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The Concept of Ousia in Metaphysics Alpha, Beta, and Gamma /
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a Work of Practical Science /
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Aristotle on the (Alleged) Inferiority of History to Poetry /
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Aristotle on the Best Kind of Tragic Plot: Re-reading Poetics 13-14 /
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Bibliography /
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Indexes /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Reading Aristotle Boston : Brill, 2017 ISBN 9789004329584
Language:
English
