Aristotle's Philosophical Development: Problems and ProspectsWilliam Robert Wians For most of this century, Aristotelian scholarship was dominated by a single question: how might Aristotle's intellectual development be used to shed light on his philosophical doctrines? Opinions differed widely as to how this growth was to be charted; eventually, a reaction to the whole enterprise set in, and the past thirty years have seen the question lose its prominence. Recently, certain scholars have reopened the question. In this collection of new essays, sixteen distinguished scholars reconsider the promise and limitations of developmentalism, with contributions devoted to Aristotle's logic and epistemology, physics, biology and psychology, ethics and politics, and metaphysics. Also included are classic developmental studies by Anton-Hermann Chroust and Thomas Case. Contributors: |
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Includes bibliographical references and index | 1 |
NTS | 41 |
retations of Aristotle | 67 |
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acroamatic actuality analysis Anima animal argues argument Aris Aristotelian Aristotle says Aristotle's development Aristotle's thought Arnim attributes Balme biological Book VII Caelo Categories cause chronological claim conception conclusion contrary definition demonstration developmental developmentalists dialectic dialogues discussion distinction doctrine earlier endoxa essence eudaimonia Eudemian Ethics Eudemus evidence examples existence explain external fact focal meaning genus Graham hypothesis idea instance interpretation Irwin Jaeger later logical Magna Moralia mathematical matter Metaph Metaphysics method moved natural motion Nicomachean Ethics objects Organon ousia Owen Owen's passage philosophical Phys Physics Plato Poetics Politics position Posterior Analytics predicate premises principles problem Protrepticus question reason reference refutation rejected Rhetoric to Alexander Rist Ross scientific seems sense simple bodies Socrates soul species Speusippus substance syllogism syllogistic model texts theory Theory of Forms thesis things Timaeus tion Topics totle's treatises universal unmoved mover virtue writings