| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 505 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge philosophers |
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Routledge philosophers.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-501) and index. |
| Contents |
Chronology -- Introduction -- 1. Aristotle: Life and works -- Aristotle in the ancient biographical tradition -- Aristotle's character -- The facts of Aristotle's life -- Reading Aristotle -- Aristotle's corpus and the structure of the Aristotelian sciences -- Conclusions -- 2. Explaining nature and the nature of explanation -- Beginning in wonder -- Explaining explaining: the four causes -- A puzzle about change and generation -- Matter and form I: Aristotle's hylomorphism -- Matter and form II: Hylomorphism refined and expanded -- The efficient cause -- The final cause I: Problems with Aristotle's commitment to teleology -- The final cause II: Teleology explored and grounded -- Relations among the causes -- Conclusions -- 3. Thinking: Scientifically, logically, philosophically -- Definition -- Essence and accident -- The structure of scientific knowledge -- An overview of Aristotelian logic -- Dialectic -- Univocity and homonymy -- Conclusions -- 4. Aristotle's early ontology: Categories -- truth, and modality -- The general orientation of Aristotle's Categories -- Aristotle's work: The Categories -- The Pre-Categories: An anti-Platonic conviction -- The Theory of Categories: Kinds of beings -- Generating the categories -- The fundamentality of substance -- A puzzle about bi-valence and modality: Tomorrow's sea battle -- Conclusions -- 5. Puzzles of nature -- Change -- The infinite -- Time -- Zeno's paradoxes of motion -- The unmoved mover -- Conclusions -- 6. Substance and the science of being qua being -- Aristotle's metaphysical interests -- Aristotle's work: The Metaphysics -- A puzzle remaining from the Physics -- The science of being qua being -- The most basic principle of all science -- Substance reconsidered: Form and actuality -- Conclusions -- 7. Living beings -- Psychological applications of hylomorphism -- The soul: Life is meant in many ways -- The soul: Against reductive materialism and substance dualism -- The hylomorphic analysis of living beings -- A problem for soul-body hylomorphism -- Perception -- Thinking and the active mind -- Conclusions -- 8. Living well -- The final good for human beings -- The character of human happiness -- Preliminary considerations -- Happiness and the human function -- The virtues of character -- A puzzle about akrasia -- Friendship -- The final good for human beings reconsidered -- Conclusions -- 9. Political association -- The orientation of Aristotle's political theory -- The emergence and priority of the polis -- The best constitution -- An ugly aspect of Aristotle's political naturalism? -- Conclusions -- 10. Rhetoric and the arts -- Aristotle's orientation in rhetoric and the arts -- Rhetoric as a craft -- Poetic production -- Tragedy -- Catharsis -- Mimêsis -- Prescriptive or descriptive? -- Conclusions -- 11. Aristotle's legacy -- Aristotle's legacy into the modern period -- Aristotle today -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
In this extensively revised new edition of his excellent guidebook, Christopher Shields introduces the whole of Aristotle's philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature of the soul and the mind, ethics, politics, and the arts. -- Book Cover. |
| Subject |
Aristotle.
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Aristotle. (OCoLC)fst00029885
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| ISBN |
9780415622486 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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0415622484 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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9780415622493 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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0415622492 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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9781315863580 (e-book) |
| Standard No. |
99957905404 |
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