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xxxii, 348 pages ; 17 cm. |
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The modern student's library. Philosophy series |
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Modern student's library. Philosophy series.
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| Contents |
The categories. Substance -- The noun -- The proposition -- The kinds of reasoning. The predicables -- The premiss and the syllogism -- The figures of syllogism -- Induction and example -- The conditions and nature of scientific knowledge -- The basic truths -- Science and sense-perception -- The forms of scientific inquiry are all concerned with the middle term -- Types of definition -- How the basic truths come to be known -- The origin and characteristics of philosophy -- History and criticism of the ideal theory -- There cannot be an infinite series of causes -- Different methods appropriate to different studies -- Our object is the study of being as such, i.e., of substance -- Philosophy distinguished from dialectic and sophistry -- The primary axiom : the law of contradiction -- The four causes -- The meaning of "being" -- First philosophy distinguished from physics and mathematics -- The general nature of substance -- The analysis of coming into being -- What makes a substance one? Substance and the universal -- Most so-called substances are only potencies -- Further thoughts on the unity of substance -- Potentiality and actuality -- The infinite -- The forms of movement -- The continuous. The paradoxes of Zeno -- The eternity of movement -- The first mover -- The primary kind of movement -- Further thoughts on form and matter -- Aristotle's theology and astronomy -- Nature -- Teleology in nature -- Place -- Time -- The five elements -- The heavens are eternal and unchangeable -- The structure of the world -- Why do some things move up and others down? -- Coming into being and passing away -- These are due to the sun's movement -- The moist and the dry evaporation -- The rainbow -- The development of the chick in the egg -- The reproduction of sharks and rays -- The habits of bees -- The method of natural science -- The problem of classification -- Defence of biological study. Plan of the study -- The three degrees of composition -- The principal parts of animals. The heart -- The human body. The hand -- The classification of animals according to modes of reproduction. Preformation or epigenesis? -- Soul in the semen and in the fertilized germ -- Characteristics due to a final cause and those due to necessity -- The view that soul moves itself -- Is the soul a simple entity? -- The definition of soul. Its faculties -- Perception. Sight -- The general nature of perception -- Reason -- The association of ideas -- The subject of ethics in the good for man -- The good is happiness -- The platonic notion of the universal good -- The definition of happiness -- Happiness and external goods -- Distinction between intellectual and moral virtue. The latter acquired by repetition of corresponding acts -- Definition of moral virtue -- The main forms of moral virtue -- The voluntary and the involuntary. Choice -- Courage -- Justice -- Equity -- The main forms of intellectual virtue -- Practical wisdom. Philosophic wisdom -- What is their use? -- The problem of loss of self-control -- Pleasure -- Friendship -- Self-love -- The ideal life -- The need of legislation. Transition to political philosophy -- The state : the difference between it and other communities -- Slavery -- Communism -- The regulation of property -- Classification of constitutions -- The true object of the state -- The best constitution for the average state -- The life of the ideal state ; the nature of its population -- Distribution of functions in the ideal state -- Town-planning -- Education -- The three ages of man -- The origin and development of poetry and of its kinds -- Tragedy. |
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Aristotle -- Written works.
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| Added Author |
Ross, W. D. (William David), 1877-1971.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. English. 1927
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