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OverviewReading 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William Wians , Ron PolanskyPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 146 Weight: 0.757kg ISBN: 9789004329584ISBN 10: 9004329587 Pages: 388 Publication Date: 03 August 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAbbreviations About the Contributors Introduction William Wians and Ron Polansky 1 Ways of Proving in Aristotle Marco Zingano 2 Aristotle’s Scientific Method Edward C. Halper 3 Aristotle’s Problemata-Style and Aural Textuality Diana Quarantotto 4 Natural Things and Body: The Investigations of Physics Helen Lang 5 Surrogate Principles and the Natural Order of Exposition in Aristotle’s De Caelo II Mariska Leunissen 6 Arrangement and Exploratory Discourse in the Parva Naturalia Philip van der Eijk 7 The Place of De Motu in Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy Andrea Falcon 8 Is Aristotle’s Account of Sexual Differentiation Inconsistent? William Wians 9 The Concept of Ousia in Metaphysics Alpha, Beta and Gamma Vasilis Politis and Jun Su 10 Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a Work of Practical Science Ron Polansky 11 Aristotle on the (Alleged) Inferiority of History to Poetry Thornton C. Lockwood 12 Aristotle on the Best Tragic Plot: Re-reading Poetics 13–14 Malcolm Heath Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationWilliam 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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