Aristotle's Two Systems (Clarendon Paperbacks) - Couverture souple

Graham, Daniel W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0198243154 ISBN 13 : 9780198243151

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 1990

Synopsis

Each of the two major approaches to Aristotle-the unitarian, which understands his work as forming a single, unified system, and the developmentalist, which seeks a sequence of developing ideas-has inherent limitations. This book proposes a synthetic view of Aristotle that sees development as a change between systematic theories. Setting theories of the so-called logical works beside theories of the physical and metaphysical treatises, Graham shows that Aristotle's doctrines fall into two distinct systems of philosophies that are genetically related.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

`the book has considerable merit and deserves to be read. The thesis ... is an interesting one, and his arguments for it are learned and well articulated' Review of Metaphysics

`Any investigation of Aristotle's philosophical development must now take Daniel Graham's book as its starting-point, and every serious student of Aristotle should read it.' Times Literary Supplement

`What is new - and what makes Aristotle's Two Systems so exciting - is the way in which Graham has constructed a comprehensive physiognomy of the two metaphysical systems, and the extremely powerful set of exegetical arguments upon which he bases his account of Aristotle's handling of them.' Times Literary Supplement

`This persuasive view of Aristotle has not previously been developed in anything like such a careful and wide-ranging way. It is written with the clarity which one has come to expect in the best Aristotelian scholarship, and is an important contribution to ancient philosophy.' Times Higher Education Supplement

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this study, Daniel W. Graham addresses two major problems in interpreting Aristotle. First, should we reconcile the apparent inconsistencies of the corpus by assuming an underlying unity of doctrine (unitarianism), or by positing a sequence of developing ideas (developmentalism)? Secondly, what is the relation between the so-called logical works on the one hand and the physical-metaphysical treatises on the other? Although the problems appear to be unrelated, Graham finds that the key to the first lies in the second, and in doing so provides the first major alternative to the unitarian approach since Jaeger's pioneering developmental study of 1923.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198243154
• ISBN 13: 9780198243151
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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