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Posterior Analytics/Topica
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Aristotle
Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor. After some time at Mitylene, in 343-2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of...more
hardback, 768 pages
Published
June 1st 1930
by Loeb Classical Library 391
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Posterior Analytics is Aristotle's book on inductive reasoning for logic. My copy was translated from Greek by G. R. G Mure. The book deals mostly with the question of how people learn new things. While a whole book seems like a bit of overkill for this topic I believe that Aristotle is attempting to show why all of the completing ways that people argue that people learn are incorrect. In order to due this he uses the logic which this section of his literature is based on to explain how both his...more
One bit of evidence that I'm a geek: I get excited that I can read Aristotle.
Back in grad school I really liked the Posterior Analytics and wanted to re-read it as part of my reading back through elements of the philosophical canon. This time I wasn't as engaged by it, presumably because it does not align as closely with my current interests as it did in grad school in the nineties. The closing pages, which discuss the limitations of scientific knowledge, are the best.
While reading, I was remin...more
Back in grad school I really liked the Posterior Analytics and wanted to re-read it as part of my reading back through elements of the philosophical canon. This time I wasn't as engaged by it, presumably because it does not align as closely with my current interests as it did in grad school in the nineties. The closing pages, which discuss the limitations of scientific knowledge, are the best.
While reading, I was remin...more
Translations of Aristotle are a dime a dozen, but what makes this edition of Posterior Analytics worth having are the ~270 pages of commentary. Apostle is on of the most exacting translators of Aristotle, but not always the easiest to read. But in this logic text, clarity comes not from smooth prose, but from a solid commentary.
Not really something you "read". I finish what I start though.
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Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.
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May 15, 2013 03:23am
The main thing I always wonder when I am reading Aristotle is what his public work was like as almost everything that we still hav...more
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