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Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition

by William Wians , Ron Polansky
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004329584
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 388
  • Original Price: GBP 156.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 704 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical

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.

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.


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