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The Bloomsbury companion to Aristotle / edited by Claudia Baracchi.

Summary:

Aristotle is one of the most crucial figures in the history of Western thought, and his name and ideas continue to be invoked in a wide range of contemporary philosophical discussions. The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle brings together leading scholars from across the world and from a variety of philosophical traditions to survey the recent research on Aristotle's thought and its contributions to the full spectrum of philosophical enquiry, from logic to the natural sciences and psychology, from metaphysics to ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Further essays address aspects of the transmissi.

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ISBN: 9781441148544
ISBN: 144114854X
ISBN: 1306724309
ISBN: 9781306724302
Physical Description: 1 online resource (433 pages).
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:	The Formulation of the Problem.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Corpus Aristotelicum; List of Contributors; INTRODUCTION: PATHS OF INQUIRY; Logos; Phusis; Philosophia Prote; Ethos; Polis; Poiesis; Part I: QUESTIONS; Logos; 1 SAYING WHAT ONE SEES, LETTING SEE WHAT ONE SAYS: ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC AND THE RHETORIC OF THE SOPHISTS; Narcissus and Echo; Saying What One Sees: Aristotle's Phenomenology and That of the Sophists; Letting See What One Says: Aristotle's Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of the Sophists; Metaphor and Ekphrasis: Two Philosophical Styles. 2 ARISTOTELIAN DEFINITION: ON THE DISCOVERY OF ARCHAIDefinition and the Prouparchousa Gnosis; Definition and the Vision of Arche; Phusis; 3 ARISTOTLE ON SENSIBLE OBJECTS: NATURAL THINGS AND BODY; Introduction; "What is": Body and Things That Are By Nature; Conclusion; 4 ON ARISTOTLE'S FORMULA . ... O.: PHYSICS IV.11, 14; Saying Time; Arithmos; Psuche; 5 MIND IN BODY IN ARISTOTLE; Introduction; Explanation in Psychology; Mind in Body; Conclusion; 6 PHANTASIA IN DE ANIMA; Review of Interpretations of De anima Book III; The Unity of Perceptive Power (AISTHETIKON) and the Placelessness of Soul. Locomotion and PhantasiaThe Problem of Truth and Falsehood; Conclusion; 7 THE HERMENEUTIC SLUMBER: ARISTOTLE'S REFLECTIONS ON SLEEP1; Philosophia Prote; 8 FIRST PHILOSOPHY; The science of the first principles and causes; The meanings of "being"; Ontology and theology; Substance; The divine substance; 9 FIRST PHILOSOPHY, TRUTH, AND THE HISTORY OF BEING IN ARISTOTLE'S METAPHYSICS; I; II; III; IV; Ethos; 10 ARISTOTLE ON HUMAN NATURE AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF ETHICS, WITH AN ADDENDUM; Williams' Aristotle; The General Strategy; The Tradition; One Philosophical Precedent: The Philebus. The Political Nature of Human BeingsThe Human Function Argument38; Human Nature and Human Limits; Internal and External; Addendum; 11 THE VISIBILITY OF GOODNESS; 1; 25; 3; 4; 12 TO KAKON POLLACHO ̄S LEGETAI: THE PLURIVOCITY OF THE NOTION OF EVIL IN ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS; Introduction; Evil "suffered"; Evil "acted"; Evil as error; Evil "acted": concluding remarks; Polis; 13 EDUCATION: THE ETHICO- POLITICAL ENERGEIA1; Introduction: Education and the unity of ethics and politics as one first philosophical inquiry; Understanding learning as energeia of an energeia: Physics VII.3. Practicing learning as energeia of an energeia: Politics VII-VIIIPoiesis; 14 TOWARD THE SUBLIME CALCULUS OF ARISTOTLE'S POETICS; Historical Juxtapositions; Pan metron ariston, or Nature Is Believable; Part II: Disseminations; 15 ARISTOTLE ON THE NATURAL DWELLING OF INTELLECT; Prologue; Reading and Rereading ARISTOTLE Through a Materialist Lens; 16 THE PERIPATETIC METHOD: WALKING WITH WOODBRIDGE, THINKING WITH ARISTOTLE; Preamble; Peripatetic Legomenology; The Surface of Things; A Path Phantastic; Postamble; 17 WHAT REMAINS OF ARISTOTLE'S METAPHYSICS TODAY?; Introduction.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.