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Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of 'Peripatetics'), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.
Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows. I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV Metaphysics: on being as being. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.
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A Review of I.3 of the Posterior Analytics,
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This review is from: Posterior Analytics. Topica (Hardcover)
Some people think that all knowledge is demonstrative. Other people, like Aristotle, think that "not all knowledge is demonstrative" (72 b 18). Thus, the question is whether the old knowledge that is "true, primary, immediate, better known than and prior to the conclusion" (71 b 21) is the product of a demonstration? Aritotle writes, "Our own doctrine is that not all knowledge is demonstrative" (72 b 19). Plus, a person who says that all knowledge is demontrated "are faced with a difficulty" (72 b 33) that is "clearly frivolous" (73 a 17). Assenting to the universal, affirmative proposition that 'All knowledge is processed' is silly and frivolous, because of two reasons. First, every demonstration needs crude knowledge and no processed knowledge is crude knowledge. Therefore, no demonstration needs processed knowledge. Aristotle writes, "The necessity of this is obvious; for since we must know the prior premisses from which the demonstration is drawn, and since the regress must end in immediate truths, those truths must be indemonstrable" (72 b 20). Second, accepting that all knowledge is processed is silly, since Aristotle writes, "Their theory reduces to the mere statement that if a thing exists, then it does exist" (72 b 33). The sad fact is, the person who agrees that 'all knowledge is processed' is the same person who must agree that 'a thing is because it is.' In summary, it is false to say that all knowledge is demonstrative and true to say that some knowledge is not demonstrative, such as "true, primary" knowledge.
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A great translation of one of the most important works in the history of philosophy. All titles in the Loeb Classical Library are highly recomended for their accuracy and for their technical quality. Definitely a must have.
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A Review of I.3 of the Posterior Analytics,
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This review is from: Posterior Analytics. Topica (Hardcover)
Some people think that all knowledge is demonstrative. Other people, like Aristotle, think that "not all knowledge is demonstrative" (72 b 18). Thus, the question is whether the old knowledge that is "true, primary, immediate, better known than and prior to the conclusion" (71 b 21) is the product of a demonstration? Aritotle writes, "Our own doctrine is that not all knowledge is demonstrative" (72 b 19). Plus, a person who says that all knowledge is demontrated "are faced with a difficulty" (72 b 33) that is "clearly frivolous" (73 a 17). Assenting to the universal, affirmative proposition that 'All knowledge is processed' is silly and frivolous, because of two reasons. First, every demonstration needs crude knowledge and no processed knowledge is crude knowledge. Therefore, no demonstration needs processed knowledge. Aristotle writes, "The necessity of this is obvious; for since we must know the prior premisses from which the demonstration is drawn, and since the regress must end in immediate truths, those truths must be indemonstrable" (72 b 20). Second, accepting that all knowledge is processed is silly, since Aristotle writes, "Their theory reduces to the mere statement that if a thing exists, then it does exist" (72 b 33). The sad fact is, the person who agrees that 'all knowledge is processed' is the same person who must agree that 'a thing is because it is.' In summary, it is false to say that all knowledge is demonstrative and true to say that some knowledge is not demonstrative, such as "true, primary" knowledge. |
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