Reading Aristotle : argument and exposition

Author(s)

• Wians, William
• Polansky, Ronald M.

Bibliographic Information

Reading Aristotle : argument and exposition

edited by William Wians, Ron Polansky

（Philosophia antiqua, v. 146）

Brill, c2017

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-368) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations About the Contributors Introduction William Wians and Ron Polansky 1 Ways of Proving in Aristotle Marco Zingano 2 Aristotle's Scientific Method Edward C. Halper 3 Aristotle's Problemata-Style and Aural Textuality Diana Quarantotto 4 Natural Things and Body: The Investigations of Physics Helen Lang 5 Surrogate Principles and the Natural Order of Exposition in Aristotle's De Caelo II Mariska Leunissen 6 Arrangement and Exploratory Discourse in the Parva Naturalia Philip van der Eijk 7 The Place of De Motu in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy Andrea Falcon 8 Is Aristotle's Account of Sexual Differentiation Inconsistent? William Wians 9 The Concept of Ousia in Metaphysics Alpha, Beta and Gamma Vasilis Politis and Jun Su 10 Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a Work of Practical Science Ron Polansky 11 Aristotle on the (Alleged) Inferiority of History to Poetry Thornton C. Lockwood 12 Aristotle on the Best Tragic Plot: Re-reading Poetics 13-14 Malcolm Heath Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BB2436122X
• ISBN:
  • 9789004329584
• LCCN: 2017023189
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 388 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B485
  • DC23 : 185
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00323670