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Author | : Tony Burns |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2011-10-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441107169 |
Download Aristotle and Natural Law Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Aristotle and Natural Law lays out a new theoretical approach which distinguishes between the notions of 'interpretation,' 'appropriation,' 'negotiation' and 'reconstruction' of the meaning of texts and their component concepts. These categories are then deployed in an examination of the role which the concept of natural law is used by Aristotle in a number of key texts. The book argues that Aristotle appropriated the concept of natural law, first formulated by the defenders of naturalism in the 'nature versus convention debate' in classical Athens. Thereby he contributed to the emergence and historical evolution of the meaning of one of the most important concept in the lexicon of Western political thought. Aristotle and Natural Law argues that Aristotle's ethics is best seen as a certain type of natural law theory which does not allow for the possibility that individuals might appeal to natural law in order to criticize existing laws and institutions. Rather its function is to provide them with a philosophical justification from the standpoint of Aristotle's metaphysics.
Author | : David Bronstein |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019872490X |
Download Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
David Bronstein sheds new light on Aristotle's 'Posterior Analytics' - one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of Western philosophy. He argues that it is coherently structured around two themes of enduring philosophical interest - knowledge and learning - and goes on to highlight Plato's influence on Aristotle's text.
Author | : James G. Lennox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521659765 |
Download Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In addition to being one of the world's most influential philosophers, Aristotle can also be credited with the creation of both the science of biology and the philosophy of biology. He was the first thinker to treat the investigations of the living world as a distinct inquiry with its own special concepts and principles. This book focuses on a seminal event in the history of biology - Aristotle's delineation of a special branch of theoretical knowledge devoted to the systematic investigation of animals. Aristotle approached the creation of zoology with the tools of subtle and systematic philosophies of nature and of science that were then carefully tailored to the investigation of animals. The papers collected in this 2001 volume, written by a pre-eminent figure in the field of Aristotle's philosophy and biology, examine Aristotle's approach to biological inquiry and explanation, his concepts of matter, form and kind, and his teleology.
Author | : Pavel Gregoric |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2007-06-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199277370 |
Download Aristotle on the Common Sense Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Gregoric investigates the Aristolian concept of the common sense, which was introduced to explain complex perceptual operations that can't be explained in terms of the five senses taken individually. Such operations include perceiving that the same object is white and sweet, or knowing that one's senses are inactive.
Author | : Monte Ransome Johnson |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2005-11-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191536504 |
Download Aristotle on Teleology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Monte Johnson examines one of the most controversial aspects of Aristiotle's natural philosophy: his teleology. Is teleology about causation or explanation? Does it exclude or obviate mechanism, determinism, or materialism? Is it focused on the good of individual organisms, or is god or man the ultimate end of all processes and entities? Is teleology restricted to living things, or does it apply to the cosmos as a whole? Does it identify objectively existent causes in the world, or is it merely a heuristic for our understanding of other causal processes? Johnson argues that Aristotle's aporetic approach drives a middle course between these traditional oppositions, and avoids the dilemma, frequently urged against teleology, between backwards causation and anthropomorphism. Although these issues have been debated with extraordinary depth by Aristotle scholars, and touched upon by many in the wider philosophical and scientific community as well, there has been no comprehensive historical treatment of the issue. Aristotle is commonly considered the inventor of teleology, although the precise term originated in the eighteenth century. But if teleology means the use of ends and goals in natural science, then Aristotle was rather a critical innovator of teleological explanation. Teleological notions were widespread among his predecessors, but Aristotle rejected their conception of extrinsic causes such as mind or god as the primary causes for natural things. Aristotle's radical alternative was to assert nature itself as an internal principle of change and an end, and his teleological explanations focus on the intrinsic ends of natural substances - those ends that benefit the natural thing itself. Aristotle's use of ends was subsequently conflated with incompatible 'teleological' notions, including proofs for the existence of a providential or designer god, vitalism and animism, opposition to mechanism and non-teleological causation, and anthropocentrism. Johnson addresses these misconceptions through an elaboration of Aristotle's methodological statements, as well as an examination of the explanations actually offered in the scientific works.
Author | : Dominic J. O'Meara |
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Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Martin Heidegger |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2009-07-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0253004373 |
Download Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume presents Heidegger’s 1924 Marburg lectures which lay the intellectual groundwork for his magnum opus, Being and Time. Here are the seeds of the ideas that would become Heidegger’s unique and highly influential phenomenology. Heidegger interprets Aristotle’s Rhetoric and looks closely at the Greek notion of pathos. These lectures offer special insight into the development of his concepts of care and concern, being-at-hand, being-in-the-world, and attunement, which were later elaborated in Being and Time. Available in English for the first time, these lectures make a significant contribution to ancient philosophy, Aristotle studies, Continental philosophy, and phenomenology.
Author | : Jonathan Beere |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2009-10-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199206708 |
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Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "actuality" and "activity" as translations of energeia, and by working out an analogical conception of energeia. This approach enables Beere to discern a hitherto unnoticed connection between Plato's Sophist and Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta, and to give satisfying interpretations of the major claims that Aristotle makes in Metaphysics Theta, the claim that energeia is prior in being to capacity (Theta 8) and the claim that any eternal principle must be perfectly good (Theta 9).
Author | : Michael Weinman |
Publisher | : Continuum |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2007-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Download Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A hugely important contribution to the study of Aristotle's ethical thought.
Author | : Isaac Althaus Loos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1899 |
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Download Studies in the Politics of Aristotle and the Republic of Plato Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle