A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 6, Aristotle: An EncounterWith this book, Professor Guthrie completed his six-volume A History of Greek Philosophy in the course of which he surveyed the whole field of Greek philosophy from the Presocratics to Aristotle. The History has won acclaim for the author's ability to take on a vast and challenging subject and to produce an account of it remarkable for its combination of learning with clarity of exposition. This is a book for students of classics and Greek philosophy, and indeed for anyone interested in reading a clear account of Aristotle's thought. |
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Contents
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THE MIND OF ARISTOTLE | 89 |
ABSTRACTION AND THE REVELATION OF FORM | 100 |
THE CONCEPT | 106 |
THE DIVISIONS OF KNOWLEDGE | 130 |
THE ROAD TO KNOWLEDGE | 170 |
CAUSES | 223 |
THEORY OF MOTION AND THEOLOGY | 243 |
PSYCHOLOGY | 277 |
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN LIFE | 331 |
Bibliography | 401 |
Indexes | 425 |
General Index | 437 |
Index of Greek words | 452 |
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Page 204 - I have said, not imagining how these simple ideas can subsist by themselves, we accustom ourselves to suppose some substratum wherein they do subsist, and from which they do result ; which therefore we call substance.
Page 110 - How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service' (Charles Darwin, 18th September 1861).
Page 48 - It thus appeared, that both Macaulay and my father were wrong; the one in assimilating the method of philosophizing in politics to the purely experimental method of chemistry; while the other, though right in adopting a deductive method, had made a wrong selection of one, having taken as the type of deduction, not the appropriate process, that of the deductive branches of natural philosophy, but the inappropriate one of pure geometry, which, not being a science of causation at all, does not require...
Page 160 - Whenever three terms are so related to one another that the last is contained in the middle as in a whole, and the middle is either contained in, or excluded from, the first as in or from a whole, the extremes must be related by a perfect syllogism.
Page 49 - But it is in another sense; for there it signifieth as much as "books written or placed after his natural philosophy": but the Schools take them for books of supernatural philosophy: for the word metaphysics will bear both these senses. And indeed that which is there written is for the most part so far from the possibility of being understood, and so repugnant to natural reason, that whosoever thinketh there is anything to be understood by it must needs think it supernatural.
Page 32 - Certain people of importance" (Such he gave his daily dreadful line to) "Entered and would seize, forsooth, the poet." Says the poet — "Then I stopped my painting.
Page 178 - The truths known by intuition are the original premises from which all others are inferred. Our assent to the conclusion being grounded on the truth of the premises, we never could arrive at any knowledge by reasoning, unless something could be known antecedently to all reasoning.
Page 388 - With the other animals the union extends only to this point, but human beings live together not only for the sake of reproduction but also for the various purposes of life; for from the start the functions are divided, and those of man and woman are different; so they help each other by throwing their peculiar gifts into the common stock.
Page 97 - It is remarkable also that to the present day this logic has not been able to advance a single step, and is thus to all appearance a closed and completed body of doctrine.
Page 93 - I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.
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| Title | A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 6, Aristotle: An Encounter Volume 6 of A History of Greek Philosophy, William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Authors | W. K. C. Guthrie, William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0521387604, 9780521387606 |
| Length | 476 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical |
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