Aristotle is one of the very greatest thinkers in the Western tradition, but also one of the most difficult. The contributors to this volume do not attempt to disguise the nature of that difficulty, but at the same time they offer a clear exposition of the central philosophical concerns in his work. Approaches and methods vary and the volume editor has not imposed any single in...
Aristotle is one of the very greatest thinkers in the Western tradition, but also one of the most difficult. The contributors to this volume do not attempt to disguise the nature of that difficulty, but at the same time they offer a clear exposition of the central philosophical concerns in his work. Approaches and methods vary and the volume editor has not imposed any single interpretation, but has rather allowed legitimate differences of interpretation to stand. An introductory chapter provides an account of Aristotle's life, and then guides the reader through the complex subject of what Aristotle actually wrote as a basis for characterising his philosophical development. Subsequent chapters cover Aristotle's writings on logic, metaphysics, science, psychology, ethics, politics, rhetoric, and poetics. It is a basic assumption of the Companion that its readers will not know Greek.
First, you choose - or are assigned - an established "Aristotelian topic": Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean, let us say. Then you are given a "reading list" which catalogues a few articles and books on the topic (all in English, of course, and the more recent the better). You read some of these items, in which scholar X takes issue with scholar W, and scholar Y with scholar X. Glancing quickly at a passage or two in Aristotle, you try to decide whether X refuted W and whether Y finally got the matter straightened out (of course he didn't); and you write your paper or essay. If you do this well enough, you will later publish it under the title "Y on Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean",- you will become Z; and future students will try to decide whether Z finally got the matter straightened ... (查看原文)
现存的亚里士多德著作可能都是被编撰的讲义记录。 亚里士多德老年时相当富有，和其青年时对财富些许轻蔑态度不太一样。 p200 There are actually only three reputable reasons to prefer living to not living:enjoying the more refined pleasures;earning a good name for...
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0 有用 Uaral 2012-09-16 18:24:10
我旦居然有这本书。被感动到了
0 有用 Uaral 2012-09-16 18:24:10
我旦居然有这本书。被感动到了