Reading Aristotle : argument and exposition / edited by William Wians, Ron Polansky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wians, William Robert, editor.

Polansky, Ronald M., 1948- editor.

Series:

Philosophia antiqua ; Volume 146.

Philosophia Antiqua, 0079-1687 ; Volume 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter / William Wians and Ron Polansky

Introduction / William Wians and Ron Polansky

Ways of Proving in Aristotle / Marco Zingano

Aristotle’s Scientific Method / Edward C. Halper

Aristotle’s Problemata-Style and Aural Textuality / Diana Quarantotto

Natural Things and Body: The Investigations of Physics / Helen S. Lang

Surrogate Principles and the Natural Order of Exposition in Aristotle’s De Caelo II / Mariska Leunissen

Arrangement and Exploratory Discourse in the Parva Naturalia / Philip van der Eijk

The Place of the De Motu Animalium in Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy / Andrea Falcon

Is Aristotle’s Account of Sexual Differentiation Inconsistent? / William Wians

The Concept of Ousia in Metaphysics Alpha, Beta, and Gamma / Vasilis Politis and Jun Su

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a Work of Practical Science / Ron Polansky

Aristotle on the (Alleged) Inferiority of History to Poetry / Thornton C. Lockwood

Aristotle on the Best Kind of Tragic Plot: Re-reading Poetics 13–14 / Malcolm Heath

Bibliography / William Wians and Ron Polansky

Indexes / William Wians and Ron Polansky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34008-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004340084 DOI