The Pocket Aristotle: Selections from PHYSICS, PSYCHOLOGY, METAPHYSICS, NICOMACHEAN ETHICS, POLITICS and POETICS
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In this extraordinary volume of selections from Aristotle--culled from the monumental Oxford translation by authorities including W.D. Ross, Benjamin Jowett, and Ingram Bywater--editor Justin D. Kaplan has included the most widely read, studied, and quoted works of the great philosopher. Informative notes give the reader a convenient and concise review of each work, illuminating the main ideas. Thoughtfully assembled, The Pocket Aristotle is the essential guide to the man who has often been show more called the world's most important thinker. show lessTags
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Provides an introduction to the thought of the eminent Greek philosopher through selections from his major works.
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- The Pocket Aristotle: Selections from PHYSICS, PSYCHOLOGY, METAPHYSICS, NICOMACHEAN ETHICS, POLITICS and POETICS
- First words
- When the objects of an inquiry, in any department, have principles, conditions, or elements, it is through acquaintance with these that knowledge, that is to say scientific knowledge, is attained.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)So much for Tragedy and Epic poetry--for these two arts in general and their species; the number and nature of their constituent parts; the causes of success and failure in them; the Objections of the critics, and the Solutions in answer to them.
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- Durant, Will
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- Ancient Greek
- Canonical LCC
- B407 .R6 1958
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