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Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition

By William Wians; Ron Polansky

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2017
ISBN
9004329587, 9789004329584
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1528822 bytes)
Series
Philosophia Antiqua 146
Pages
388 pa\400
Topic
Literature
Time added
2018-07-01 08:24:30
-- 384-322 v ChrAristoteles

Description

Reading Aristotle 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 scrupulously to observe distinctions between the different sciences. A sensitivity to expository principles is crucial to understanding both particular arguments and entire treatises.

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