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Aristotle [electronic resource]

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A comprehensive introduction to the life and work of Aristotle.

Title Aristotle [electronic resource] / Otfried Höffe
translated by Christine Salazar. [SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy ]
Publisher Albany : State University of New York Press
Creation Date 2003
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-224) and indexes.
English
Content ""ARISTOTLE""
""CONTENTS""
""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""
""LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND METHOD OF CITATION""
""PREFACE""
""PART I: THE PHILOSOPHER""
""1. THE MAN AND HIS WORK""
""1.1 THE MAN""
""1.2 THE WORK""
""2. RESEARCHER, SCHOLAR, AND PHILOSOPHER""
""PART II: KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE""
""3. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE""
""3.1 PROPAEDEUTIC?""
""3.2 AN EPISTEMIC HIERARCHY""
""3.3 FREEDOM AND SELF-REALIZATION""
""4. FORMS OF RATIONALITY""
""4.1 SYLLOGISTICS""
""4.2 DIALECTIC (TOPICS)""
""4.3 RHETORIC""
""4.4 POETICS: TRAGEDY""
""5. PROOFS AND PRINCIPLES""
""5.1 A CRITIQUE OF DEMONSTRATIVE REASON""""5.2 AXIOMS AND OTHER PRINCIPLES""
""5.3 INDUCTION AND MIND""
""6. FOUR METHODICAL MAXIMS""
""6.1 ESTABLISHING THE PHENOMENA""
""6.2 DOCTRINES""
""6.3 DIFFICULTIES""
""6.4 LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS""
""PART III: PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS""
""7. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY""
""7.1 ARISTOTELIAN NATURAL SCIENCE""
""7.2 MOTION""
""7.3 THE FOUR CAUSES""
""7.4 CONTINUUM, THE INFINITE, PLACE, AND TIME""
""8. BIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY""
""8.1 ARISTOTLE THE ZOOLOGIST""
""8.2 TELEONOMY: ORGANISMS, PROCREATION, AND HEREDITY""
""8.3 THE SOUL""
""9. FIRST PHILOSOPHY, OR METAPHYSICS""""10. COSMOLOGY AND THEOLOGY""
""10.1 META-PHYSICS""
""10.2 THE COSMOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF GOD""
""10.3 AN ETHICAL CONCEPT OF GOD?""
""11. ONTOLOGY AND LANGUAGE""
""11.1 CATEGORIES""
""11.2 SUBSTANCE""
""11.3 ARISTOTLE'S CRITIQUE OF PLATO'S IDEAS""
""11.4 ON LANGUAGE""
""PART IV: ETHICS AND POLITICS""
""12. PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY""
""12.1 THE AUTONOMY OF ETHICS""
""12.2 THE GOAL IS ACTION""
""12.3 OUTLINE KNOWLEDGE""
""13. THEORY OF ACTION""
""13.1 THE BASIC CONCEPT OF DESIRE""
""13.2 DECISION AND POWER OF JUDGMENT""
""13.3 WEAKNESS OF THE WILL""""13.4 DOES ARISTOTLE KNOW THE CONCEPT OF WILL?""
""14. THE GOOD LIFE""
""14.1 THE PRINCIPLE OF HAPPINESS""
""14.2 VIRTUES OF CHARACTER""
""14.3 JUSTICE, NATURAL LAW, AND EQUITY""
""14.4 THEORETICAL OR POLITICAL EXISTENCE?""
""15. POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY""
""15.1 THE RELEVANCE OF THE POLITICS""
""15.2 POLITICAL BY NATURE""
""15.3 FRIENDSHIP AND OTHER PREREQUISITES""
""16. POLITICAL JUSTICE""
""16.1 ELEMENTARY INEQUALITIES""
""16.2 RULE OF THE FREE OVER THE FREE""
""16.3 DEMOCRACY OR POLITY ?""
""PART V: THE RECEPTION""
""17. ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES""""17.1 ANTIQUITY""
""17.2 CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, AND JUDAISM""
""17.3 THE GREAT ARISTOTELIAN RENAISSANCE""
""18. THE MODERN AGE AND THE PRESENT""
""18.1 DETACHMENT AND RENEWED INTEREST""
""18.2 ARISTOTLE RESEARCH AND NEO-ARISTOTELIANISMS""
""CHRONOLOGY""
""BIBLIOGRAPHY""
""INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES"" ""GENERAL INDEX""

Extent 1 online resource (252 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010712609905171
MARC RECORDS

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