{"product_id":"aristotle-on-knowledge-and-learning-the-posterior-analytics-9780198724902","title":"Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning: The Posterior Analytics","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Bronstein\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'All teaching and all intellectual learning come to be from pre-existing knowledge.' So begins Aristotle's \u003cem\u003ePosterior Analytics\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of western philosophy. David Bronstein sheds new light on this challenging text by arguing that it is coherently structured around two themes of enduring philosophical interest: knowledge and learning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003cem\u003ePosterior Analytics\u003c\/em\u003e, on Bronstein's reading, is a sustained examination of scientific knowledge: what it is and how it is acquired. Aristotle first discusses two principal forms of scientific knowledge (\u003cem\u003eepist?m?\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003enous\u003c\/em\u003e). He then provides a compelling account, in reverse order, of the types of learning one needs to undertake in order to acquire them. The \u003cem\u003ePosterior Analytics\u003c\/em\u003e thus emerges as an elegantly organized work in which Aristotle describes the mind's ascent from sense-perception of particulars to scientific knowledge of first principles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBronstein also highlights Plato's influence on Aristotle's text. For each type of learning Aristotle discusses, Bronstein uncovers an instance of Meno's Paradox (a puzzle from Plato's \u003cem\u003eMeno\u003c\/em\u003e according to which inquiry and learning are impossible) and a solution to it. In addition, he argues, against current orthodoxy, that Aristotle is committed to the Socratic Picture of inquiry, according to which one should seek what a thing's essence is before seeking its demonstrable attributes and their causes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eAristotle on Knowledge and Learning\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, epistemology, or philosophy of science.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890357518487,"sku":"9780198724902","price":10454.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198724902.webp?v=1781179672","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/aristotle-on-knowledge-and-learning-the-posterior-analytics-9780198724902","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}