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A History of Greek Philosophy

A History of Greek Philosophy

A History of Greek Philosophy

Volume 6: Aristotle: An Encounter
W. K. C. Guthrie
March 1990
6. Aristotle: An Encounter
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    With this book, Professor Guthrie completed his six-volume A History of Greek Philosophy in the course of which he surveyed the whole field of Greek philosophy from the Presocratics to Aristotle. The History has won acclaim for the author's ability to take on a vast and challenging subject and to produce an account of it remarkable for its combination of learning with clarity of exposition. This is a book for students of classics and Greek philosophy, and indeed for anyone interested in reading a clear account of Aristotle's thought.

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    "...it carries an immense weight of learning in ancient philosophy and knowledge of modern thought, as well as total command of Aristotelian scholarship." Joint Association of Classical Teachers Bulletin

    "AristotleI^ touches on all major areas of Aristotle's work...For undergraduates, nervously approaching this philosopher for the first time, it will be the most encouraging, illuminating, and informative account that they are likely to meet." Andrew Barker

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    September 1981
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    9780521235730
    476 pages
    234 × 157 × 30 mm
    0.76kg
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    Table of Contents

    • Obiter dicta
    • 1. Discovering Aristotle
    • 2. Aristotle's life and philosophical pilgrimage
    • 3. The written remains
    • 4. Eudemus, Protrepticus, De Philosophia
    • 5. The mind of Aristotle
    • 6. Abstraction and the revelation of form
    • 7. Teleology and its defence: the concept of potentiality
    • 8. The divisions of knowledge
    • 9. Logic, the tool of philosophy
    • 10. The road to knowledge
    • 11. Substanced
    • 12. Causes
    • 13. Theory of motion and theology
    • 14. Psychology
    • 15. The philosophy of human life.
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    • W. K. C. Guthrie