Aristotle's first principles
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Aristotle's first principles
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1988
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Bibliography: p. [642]-659
Includes indexes
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Description
This book explores Aristotle's philosophical method and the merits of his conclusions, showing how he defends dialectic against the objection that it cannot justify a metaphysical realist's claims. The author claims that a proper understanding of Aristotle's method requires emphasis on the systematic character of his philosophy and thus examines questions in several different areas of Aristotle's philosophy - especially metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics - and stresses the connections between doctrines and issues that are often discussed separately. Professor Irwin does not presuppose extensive previous acquaintance with Aristotle. Greek texts are translated and Greek words transliterated.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The emergence of the problem: the problem of first principles
- inquiry and dialectic
- constructive dialectic
- puzzles about substance
- the formal cause
- conditions for science
- puzzles about science. Part 2 Solutions to the problem: the universal science
- the science of being
- substance and essence
- essence and form
- form and substance. Part 3 Applications of the solution: the soul as substance
- soul and mind
- action
- the good of rational agents
- the virtues of rational agents
- the good of others
- the state
- justice
- the consequences of virtue and vice
- reconsiderations.
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