On Aristotle Topics 1 Alexander of Aphrodisias ; translated by Johannes M. Van Ophuijsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, of Aphrodisias, author.

Contributor:

Ophuijsen, J. M. van, 1953- editor.

Series:

Ancient commentator on Aristotle.

Ancient commentator on Aristotle

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Logic, Ancient.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 228 pages).

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2014.

Summary:

"Aristotle's Topics is about dialectic, which can be understood as a debate between two people or the inner debate of one thinker with himself. Its purposes range from philosophical training to discovering the first principles of thought. Its arguments concern the four predicables (definition, property, genus and accident). Aristotle explains how these four fit into his ten categories, and in Book 1 begins to outline strategies for debate, such as the definition of ambiguity. Alexander's commentary on Book 1 discusses how to define Aristotelian syllogistic argument, why it stands up against the rival Stoic theory of interference, and what is the character of inductive interference and of rhetorical argument. He distinguishes inseparable accidents such as the whiteness of snow from defining differentiae such as its being frozen, and considers how these fit into the scheme of categories. He speaks of dialectic as a stochastic discipline in which success is to be judged not by victory but by skill in argument, a view parallel to that sometimes taken in antiquity of medical practice. And he investigates the subject of ambiguity which had also been richly developed since Aristotle by the rival Stoic school."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Textual Emendations

TRANSLATION

Notes

Bibliography English-Greek

Glossary Greek-English Index

Index of Passages Cited

Subject

Index

Notes:

First published in 2001 by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd

Includes bibliographical references and index

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement

ISBN:

9781472551658

OCLC:

922786659