An Approach to Aristotle's Physics
Subtitle: With Particular Attention to the Role of His Manner of Writing
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: December 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780791435519
Subjects: Philosophy; Science; History Of Physics; History Of Science; Style; Physics; Science/Mathematics; Philosophy, Ancient; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Early works to 1800; History; Aristotle; Greek language
Description: Maintaining that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core, David Bolotin argues in this book that Aristotle never seriously intended many of his doctrines that have been demolished by modern science. To that end, he presents a number of "case studies" to show that Aristotle deliberately misrepresented his views about nature - a thought that was commonly shared by commentators on his work in late antiquity and the middle ages.

Bolotin demonstrates that Aristotle's real views have not been refuted by modern science and still deserve our most serious attention.