Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wians, William Robert
• Polansky, Ronald M., 1948-

Description

xii, 388 pages; 25 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Philosophia antiqua, 0079-1687 ; Volume 146

Uniform Title

Philosophia antiqua ; v. 146.

Subject

• Aristotle
• Aristotle > Knowledge > Rhetoric
• Aristoteles, v384-v322
• Explanation
• Exposition (Rhetoric)
• Rhetoric
• Aristotelismus

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-368) and indexes.

Contents

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 Naturalis / 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.

Call Number

JFE 18-2915

ISBN

• 9789004329584
• 9004329587

LCCN

2017023189

OCLC

987491806

Title

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

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Philosophia antiqua, 0079-1687 ; Volume 146

Philosophia antiqua ; v. 146.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-368) and indexes.

Added Author

Wians, William Robert, editor.

Polansky, Ronald M., 1948- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Reading Aristotle. Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004340084 (DLC) 2017024266

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2915