Reading Aristotle : argument and exposition /
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. E...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9789004340084 9004340084 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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.