Posterior analytics - 2nd Edition

Zusatztext The notes in CIAP-B are crisp and incisive! and offer a dazzling array of opinions that are original with Barnes or are argued for in original ways. The commentary is immensely learned and abounds with references to ancient texts and to secondary literature. Klappentext The Posterior Analytics contains some of Aristotle's most influential thoughts in logic! epistemology! metaphysics! and the philosophy of science. The first book expounds and develops the notions of a demonstrative argument and of a formal! axiomatized science; the second discusses a cluster of problems raised by the axioms or principles of such a science! and investigates in particular the theory of definition. This volume is intended to serve the needs of readers of Aristotle without a knowledge of Greek; for this second edition the translation has been completely rewritten! with the aims of greater elegance and greater fidelity to the Greek. The commentary elucidates and assesses Aristotle's arguments from a philosophical point of view; it has been extensively revised to take account of the scholarship of the last twenty years. Zusammenfassung This volume contains a close translation, suitable for students without a knowledge of Greek, together with a philosophical commentary. It contains some of Aristotle's most influential thoughts in logic, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of science.

Product details

• Authors: Aristotle
• Assisted by: J. L. Ackrill (Editor), L. Judson (Editor), Jonathan Barnes (Translation)
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.1994
• EAN: 9780198240891
• ISBN: 978-0-19-824089-1
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 215 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Clarendon Aristotle Series; Clarendon Aristotle; Clarendon Aristotle Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Literary essays, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500