Analyses Of Aristotle

Author : Jaakko Hintikka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402020414

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Analyses of Aristotle by Jaakko Hintikka Pdf

Aristotle thought of his logic and methodology as applications of the Socratic questioning method. In particular, logic was originally a study of answers necessitated by earlier answers. For Aristotle, thought-experiments were real experiments in the sense that by realizing forms in one's mind, one can read off their properties and interrelations. Treating forms as independent entities, knowable one by one, committed Aristotle to his mode of syllogistic explanation. He did not think of existence, predication and identity as separate senses of estin. Aristotle thus serves as an example of a thinker who did not rely on the distinction between the allegedly different Fregean senses, thereby shedding new light on our own conceptual presuppositions. This collection comprises several striking interpretations that Jaakko Hintikka has put forward over the years, constituting a challenge not only to Aristotelian scholars and historians of ideas, but to everyone interested in logic, epistemology or metaphysics and in their history.

Author : George Henry Lewes
Publisher : London : Smith, Elder and Company
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015051096934

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Aristotle by George Henry Lewes Pdf

Author : Patrick Hugh Byrne
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791433218

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Analysis and Science in Aristotle by Patrick Hugh Byrne Pdf

Presents a new interpretation of Aristotle's Analytics (the Prior and Posterior Analytics) as a unified whole, and argues that to "loose up"or solve -- rather than to reduce or break up -- is the principle meaning which best characterizes the Analytics. Offering a new interpretation of Aristotle's Analytics (the Prior and Posterior Analytics) as a unified whole, Patrick H. Byrne argues that a non-deductive form of ancient mathematical analysis influenced Aristotle's thinking. Reading the Analytics with this perspective in mind sheds new light on Aristotle's theories of the syllogism, demonstration, and the principles of science. The book begins with a brief survey of ancient geometrical analysis and an investigation of Aristotle's uses of the Greek term, analuein. Byrne argues that "to loose up" or solve -- rather than to reduce or break up -- is the principal meaning which best characterizes Aristotle's Analytics. Extending this line of reasoning, he argues that for Aristotle scientific analysis commonly begins with knowledge of a "mere fact" (a conclusion) and seeks a rigorous demonstration which expresses knowledge of the "reasoned fact". Moreover, genuine analysis of a fact into a reasoned fact cannot be accomplished unless the premises of demonstrations are themselves reasoned facts. Hence the processes which yield the immediate principles (especially definitions) are next investigated through detailed examinations of key examples which Aristotle provides.

Author : Thomas Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Logic
ISBN : OXFORD:590832712

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Analysis of Aristotle's Logic, with Remarks by Thomas Reid Pdf

Author : Edward Meredith Cope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Rhetoric, Ancient
ISBN : BSB:BSB10234918

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An Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric by Edward Meredith Cope Pdf

Author : Katherine Berrisford,Riley Quinn
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351350891

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An Analysis of Aristotle's Politics by Katherine Berrisford,Riley Quinn Pdf

Aristotle remains one of the most celebrated thinkers of all time in large part thanks to his incisive critical thinking skills. In Politics, which can be considered one of the foundational books of the western political tradition, the focus is on problem-solving, and particularly on the generation and evaluation of alternative possibilities. Aristotle’s aim, in Politics, is to determine how best to organize a society. He looks in turn at several different type of organization – kingship, oligarchy and the polity, or rule in the hands of many – and evaluates the arguments for each in turn. But he takes the exercise further than his predecessors had done. Having concluded that rule by the aristocracy would be preferable, since it would mean rule by citizens capable of taking decisions on behalf of the society as a whole, Aristotle subjects his solution to a further checking process, asking productive questions in order to make a sound decision between alternatives. Politics was ground-breaking in its approach. Unlike previous thinkers, Aristotle based all his ideas on a practical assessment of how they would play out in the real world. Ultimately, Aristotle argues, the problem of self-interest means that the adoption of a mixed constitution – one based on carefully considered laws which aims at a balance of power between the people and the elite – is most likely to bring eudaemonia (happiness). It’s a conclusion firmly based on careful evaluation (not least the process of judging the adequacy of arguments) and the product of outstanding problem-solving skills.

Author : E.M. Cope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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An Intoduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric: With Analysis Notes and Appendices by E.M. Cope Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425000868

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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.

Author : Thomas Reid
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230340246

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Analysis of Aristotle's Logic, with Remarks by Thomas Reid Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ... a great help both to memory and judgment. As the philosopher's province includes all things, human and divine, that can be objects of inquiry, he is naturaHy led to attempt some general division like that of the Categories. And the invention of a division of this kind, which the speculative part of mankind acquiesced in for two thousand years, marks a superiority of genius in the inventor, whoever he was. Nor does it appear that the general divisions which, since the decline of the Peripatetic philosophy, have been substituted in place of the ten categories, are more perfect. Locke has reduced all things to three categories; viz. substances, modes, and relations. In this division, time, space, and number, three great objects of human thought, are omitted. The author of the Treatise of Human Nature has reduced all things to two categories, viz. ideas and impressions: a division which is very well adapted to his system, and which puts me in mind of another made by a very excellent mathematician in a printed thesis I have seen. In it the author, after a severe censure of the ten categories of the Peripatetics, maintains that there neither are nor can be more than two categories of things, viz. data and quanta. There are two ends that may be proposed by such divisions. The first is, to methodize or digest in order what a man actually knows. This is neither unimportant nor impracticable > and in proportion to the solidity and accuracy of a man's judgment, his divisions of the things he knows will be elegant and useful. The same subject may admit, and even require, various divisions, according to the different points of view from which we contemplate it: nor does it follow, that because one division is good, therefore another is naught. To...

Author : Asiste Celkyte
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351352499

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An Analysis of Aristotle's Metaphysics by Asiste Celkyte Pdf

Aristotle’s Metaphysics is a collection of essays on a wide range of topics, almost certainly never put together by Aristotle himself. This helps to explain why the material covers such a very wide range of material, from meaning to mathematics, from logical sequences to religion. It includes very useful treatments of the nature of axioms (or primary truths) such as the law of non-contradiction and the laws of logic. In looking at these, Aristotle provides sustained guides to clear thinking as would be evidenced in analysis and evaluation of arguments and the production of good reasoning. He also provides some valuable discussion of interpretation by looking at homonyms (as in ‘this knife is sharp’ and ‘this note is sharp’) and what he calls ‘paronyms,’ which lie between homonyms and synonyms: an example is the word ‘healthy’. Metaphysics is also useful to study for its frequent examples of hypothetical reasoning, including their use in mathematics (‘if x, then y...’) and science (‘if a moves b, then b moves c...’, so what moves a?). In addition, we find Aristotle analysing Plato’s arguments and subjecting them to sustained (critical) evaluation. While Metaphysics shows Aristotle in many well-developed critical thinking modes, it is first and foremost a work of exquisite reasoning, creating strong arguments that continue to be debated and deployed today, nearly 2500 years after they were written.

Author : Giovanni Gellera
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351352550

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An Analysis of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Giovanni Gellera Pdf

Aristotle, a student of Plato, wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE, in a time of extraordinary intellectual development. Over two millennia later, his thorough exploration of virtue, reason, and the ultimate human good still forms the basis of the values at the heart of Western civilization. According to Aristotle, the ultimate human good is eudaimonia, or happiness, which comes from a life of virtuous action. He argues that virtues like justice, restraint, and practical wisdom cannot simply be taught but must be developed over time by cultivating virtuous habits, which can be developed by using practical wisdom and recognizing the desirable middle ground between extremes of human behavior.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025063396

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Analysis of Aristotle's Ethics, with Notes by the Rev. R. B. Paul ... Second Edition by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Theodore Scaltsas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Substance (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0801476356

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Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics by Theodore Scaltsas Pdf

In this book, Theodore Scaltsas brings the insights of contemporary philosophy to bear on a classic problem in metaphysics that stems from Aristotle's theory of substance. Scaltsas provides an analysis of the enigmatic notions of potentiality and actuality, which he uses to explain Aristotle's substantial holism by showing how the concrete and the abstract parts of a substance form a dynamic, diachronic whole.

Author : William Barrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015026481112

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Aristotle's Analysis of Movement by William Barrett Pdf

Author : Aristoteles,Theodore William Alois Buckley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:12830727

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Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric, Literally Translated from the Greek with an Analysis by Thomas Hobbes, and a Series of Questions by Aristoteles,Theodore William Alois Buckley Pdf