Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition argues that Aristotle’s treatises must be approached as progressive unfoldings of a unified position that may extend over a single book, an entire treatise, or across several works. Contributors demonstrate that Aristotle relies on both explanatory and expository principles. Explanatory principles include familiar doctrines such as the four causes, actuality’s priority over potentiality and nature’s doing nothing in vain. Expository principles are at least as important. They pertain to proper sequence, pedagogical method, the role of reputable views and the opinions of predecessors, the equivocity of key explanatory terms, and the need to scrupulously observe distinctions between the different sciences. A sensitivity to expository principles is crucial to understanding both particular arguments and entire treatises.
...MoreChapter van der Eijik, Philip J. (2017) Arrangement and Exploratory Discourse in the Parva Naturalia. In: Reading Aristotle (pp. 181-214).
Chapter Thornton C. Lockwood (2017) Aristotle on the (Alleged) Inferiority of History to Poetry. In: Reading Aristotle (pp. 315-333).
Chapter Andrea Falcon (2017) The Place of the De Motu Animalium in Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy. In: Reading Aristotle (pp. 215-235).
Chapter Mariska Leunissen (2017) Surrogate Principles and the Natural Order of Exposition in Aristotle’s De Caelo II. In: Reading Aristotle (pp. 165-180).
Chapter Edward C. Halper (2017) Aristotle’s Scientific Method. In: Reading Aristotle (pp. 50-96).
Chapter Ron Polansky (2017) Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a Work of Practical Science. In: Reading Aristotle (pp. 277-314).
Chapter William Wians (2017) Is Aristotle’s Account of Sexual Differentiation Inconsistent?. In: Reading Aristotle (pp. 236-256).
Chapter Helen S. Lang (2017) Natural Things and Body: The Investigations of Physics. In: Reading Aristotle (pp. 127-164).
Chapter Malcolm Heath (2017) Aristotle on the Best Kind of Tragic Plot: Re-reading Poetics 13–14. In: Reading Aristotle (pp. 334-351).
Chapter Marco Zingano (2017) Ways of Proving in Aristotle. In: Reading Aristotle (pp. 7-49).
Chapter Ron Polansky; William Wians (2017) Introduction. In: Reading Aristotle (pp. 1-6).
Chapter Vasilis Politis; Jun Su (2017) The Concept of Ousia in Metaphysics Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. In: Reading Aristotle (pp. 257-276).
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