The Mind of Aristotle : : A Study in Philosophical Growth / / John M. Rist.

Until the nineteenth century it was common to assume that philosophers said more or less the same things throughout their lives. Such an attitude led their successors to turn their thoughts into harmonious systems which, though often of great philosophical interest, failed to reflect the detailed ri...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1989
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • 1. Aristotle's Life and Works
  • 2. Platonism without the Forms?
  • 3. Forms, Numbers, and Aristotelian Development
  • 4. The Chronology of Aristotle's Logical and Rhetorical Works
  • 5. Categories
  • 6. The Development of Energeia: Activity and Actuality
  • 7. Teleology: From World-Mind towards Aether and Pneuma
  • 8. Rhetoric and Politics: Form and Content
  • 9. Soul and Nous in Psychology and Ethics
  • 10. Plato's Cosmic Biology, Aristotle's Aether and Prime Matter
  • 11. More Chronology of Aristotle's Physical and Biological Writings
  • 12. The Growth of the Metaphysics
  • 13. Late Biology
  • 14. Substance
  • Epilogue
  • Chronology of Aristotle's Life and Works
  • NOTES
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF PASSAGES IN ARISTOTLE
  • GENERAL INDEX
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