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Is this a book meant for young readers? Is it easy to understand?

Jeremy The first paragraph of the preface states:

"When the idea for this book first occurred to me, I thought of entitling it The Children’s Aristotle or Ari…moreThe first paragraph of the preface states:

"When the idea for this book first occurred to me, I thought of entitling it The Children’s Aristotle or Aristotle for Children. But those titles would not have accurately conveyed the audience for whom this simple, easy-to-read exposition of Aristotle’s common-sense philosophy is intended. The audience, I felt, was everybody—of any age, from twelve or fourteen years old upward. Hence the title chosen, and the subtitle “Difficult Thought Made Easy,” together with the statement that this book is an introduction to common sense."

Then in the introduction he states:

"It is in another way that philosophy is useful—to help us to understand things we already know, understand them better than we now
understand them. That is why I think everyone should learn how to think philosophically.
For that purpose, there is no better teacher than Aristotle. I do not hesitate to recommend him as the teacher to begin with."(less)

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