Aristotle
Publisher: Routledge Philosophers
Published: First published in 2007
Place of publication: New York, USA; London, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780415283311; ISBN13: 978-0-203-96194-0 (ebk)
Notes: Routledge Philosophers
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements xi; title: List of Abbreviations xiii; title: Chronology xv; title: Introduction 1; title: Aristotle: Life and Works One 8; title: 1.1 Aristotle in the Ancient Biographical Tradition 8; title: 1.2 Aristotle’s Character 15; title: 1.3 The Facts of Aristotle’s Life 17; title: 1.4 Reading Aristotle 22; title: 1.5 Aristotle’s Corpus and the Structure of the Aristotelian Sciences 28; title: 1.6 Conclusions 34; title: Explaining Nature and the Nature of Explanation Two 36; title: 2.1 Beginning in Wonder 36; title: 2.2 Explaining Explaining 40; title: 2.3 A Puzzle about Change and Generation 49; title: 2.4 Matter and Form I 53; title: 2.5 Matter and Form II 58; title: 2.6 The Efficient Cause 64; title: 2.7 The Final Cause I 68; title: 2.8 The Final Cause II 78; title: 2.9 Relations Among the Causes 90; title: 2.10 Conclusions 94; title: Thinking Three 98; title: 3.1 Definition 98; title: 3.2 Essence and Accident 99; title: 3.3 The Structure of Scientific Knowledge 106; title: 3.4 An Overview of Aristotelian Logic 118; title: 3.5 Dialectic 126; title: 3.6 Univocity and Homonymy 133; title: 3.7 Conclusions 143; title: Aristotle’s Early Ontology Four 146; title: 4.1 The General Orientation of Aristotle’s Categories 146; title: 4.2 Aristotle’s Work: The Categories 150; title: 4.3 The Pre-Categories: an Anti-Platonic Conviction 151; title: 4.4 The Theory of Categories: Kinds of Beings 157; title: 4.5 Generating the Categories 159; title: 4.6 The Fundamentality of Substance 172; title: 4.7 A Puzzle about Bi-valence and Modality 181; title: 4.8 Conclusions 192; title: Puzzles of Nature Five 196; title: 5.1 Change 196; title: 5.2 The Infinite 203; title: 5.3 Time 206; title: 5.4 Zeno’s Paradoxes of Motion 215; title: 5.5 The Unmoved Mover 220; title: 5.6 Conclusions 229; title: Substance and the Science of Being qua Being Six 232; title: 6.1 Aristotle’s Metaphysical Interests 232; title: 6.2 Aristotle’s Work: the Metaphysics 233; title: 6.3 A Puzzle Remaining from the Physics 234; title: 6.4 The Science of Being Qua Being 237; title: 6.5 The Most Basic Principle of All Science 246; title: 6.6 Substance Reconsidered: Form and Actuality 255; title: 6.7 Conclusions 267; title: Living Beings Seven 270; title: 7.1 Psychological Applications of Hylomorphism 270; title: 7.2 The Soul: Life is Meant in Many Ways 271; title: 7.3 Against Reductive Materialism and Substance Dualism 278; title: 7.4 The Hylomorphic Analysis of Living Beings 285; title: 7.5 A Problem for Soul–Body Hylomorphism 290; title: 7.6 Perception and Thought 293; title: 7.7 Conclusions 304; title: Living Well Eight 306; title: 8.1 The Final Good for Human Beings 306; title: 8.2 The Character of Human Happiness 310; title: 8.3 Happiness and the Human Function 316; title: 8.4 The Virtues of Character 323; title: 8.5 A Puzzle about Akrasia 329; title: 8.6 Friendship 334; title: 8.7 The Final Good for Human Beings Reconsidered 340; title: 8.8 Conclusions 346; title: Political Association Nine 350; title: 9.1 The Orientation of Aristotle’s Political Theory 350; title: 9.2 The Emergence and Priority of the Polis 353; title: 9.3 The Best Constitution 363; title: 9.4 An Ugly Aspect of Aristotle’s Political Naturalism? 368; title: 9.5 Conclusions 373; title: Rhetoric and the Arts Ten 375; title: 10.1 Aristotle’s Orientation in Rhetoric and the Arts 375; title: 10.2 Rhetoric as a Craft 377; title: 10.3 Poetic Production 381; title: 10.4 Tragedy 385; title: 10.5 Catharsis 386; title: 10.6 Mimêsis 391; title: 10.7 Prescriptive or Descriptive? 393; title: 10.8 Conclusions 396; title: Aristotle’s Legacy Eleven 398; title: 11.1 Aristotle’s Legacy into the Modern Period 398; title: 11.2 Aristotle Today 402; title: Glossary 405; title: Notes 419; title: Bibliography 446; title: Index 453