{"product_id":"aristotle-and-his-philosophy-9781560008361","title":"Aristotle and His Philosophy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this stunning act of synthesis, Abraham Edel captures the entire range of Aristotle's thought in a manner that will prove attractive and convincing to a contemporary audience. Many philosophers approach Aristotle with their own, rather than his, questions. Some cast him as a partisan of a contemporary school. Even the neutral approach of classical scholarship often takes for granted questions that reflect our modern ways of dissecting the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAristotle and His Philosophy \u003c\/em\u003eshows him at work in asking and answering questions. Abraham Edel fashions a sound comparative way of using current analysis to deepen our understanding of Aristotle rather than argue with or simply appropriate him. Edel examines how Aristotle's basic ideas operated in his scientific and humanistic works, what they enabled him to do, what they kept him from doing, and what in turn we can learn from his philosophical experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe purpose of this volume is twofold: to provide a comprehensive introduction to Aristotle's thought, and to throw fresh light on its patterned and systematic character. First, tracing the pattern in Aristotle's metaphysical and physical writings, he then explores the psychology, epistemology, ethics and politics, rhetoric and poetics. In the process, Edel discusses the way interpretations of Aristotle are built up and how different philosophical outlooks—Catholic, Hegelian, Marxian, linguistic, naturalistic, and pragmatic—have affected the reading of Aristotelian texts and ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new introduction probes the general problem of interpreting a philosophy, and suggests how working through the different interpretations can contribute to a fuller understanding. This methodological self-consciousness makes \u003cem\u003eAristotle and His Philosophy \u003c\/em\u003emarkedly different from other studies of Aristotle. Martha C. Nussbaum of Brown University has described Edel as having \"philosophical sensitivity and good sense throughout. His scholarship is comprehensive, but handled with grace and clarity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1: The Works, The Man, The Thought; 1: Aristotle’s Works and The Problem of Interpretation; 2: The Man Behind The Works and The Man Within The Works; 3: The Character of Aristotle’s Thought and his Philosophic Method; 2: The Metaphysical Network; 4: Matter and Change: A Preliminary Sketch; 5: Explanation and The Teleological Model; 6: Continuity and Potentiality; 7: Being and Its Partitions; 8: Substance and The Substances; 3: Man and his Powers; 9: Methodological Aspects of Psychology; 10: Sense and Thought; 11: Movement and Emotion; 4: The Theory of Knowing: Mind at Work; 12: Reasoning and The Analysis of Knowing; 13: Demonstration, Explanation, and Verification; 14: Meaning, Definition, and Classification; 15: Truth, Reality, and Essentialism; 5: The Theory of Practice; 16: The Network of Ethical Concepts; 17: Justice, Internal Conflict, and Friendship; 18: Social and Political Concepts; 6: The Theory of Production; 19: Rhetoric; 20: Poetics; 7: Epilogue; 21: Predicaments of Aristotelian Scholarship","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020073664855,"sku":"9781560008361","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781560008361.jpg?v=1750782304","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aristotle-and-his-philosophy-9781560008361","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}