Aristotle on Logic and Nature

✍ Scribed by Jan-Ivar Lindén (editor)

• Publisher: Peeters Publishers
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Series: Aristote. Traductions et etudes 42
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The impact of Aristotle cannot be overestimated, covering not only the "first philosophy", which later was to become "metaphysics", but several different areas, ranging from ethics and politics to rhetoric and poetry. A special status belongs to the fundamentals of thinking, treated in the logical writings. Another core of Aristotelian philosophy concerns the philosophy of nature - issues of life and soul, natural kinds, animal movement, nature in all its aspects, including the translunar sphere of heavenly bodies. The psychology of De anima is part of this philosophy of nature, but at the same time includes a noetic sphere, indicating another dimension of human life, which enables true knowledge and truly virtuous actions. These aspects of Aristotelian philosophy are often studied separately. While there are several important works on Aristotelian logic, ethics and psychology, the aim of the current volume is to offer perspectives on the interrelatedness of these domains.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Presentation
Introduction • Jan-Ivar Lindén
Intentions and Directions
Ὄρεξις and Intention • Tomás Calvo Martinez
“The soul is in a way all things”: Aristotle and Internalist Conceptions of Intentionality • Charlotta Weigelt
The Ambiguity of Appearance. On Responsivity in Aristotle • Jan-Ivar Lindén
The Role of Argumentation
Epistemic Logic in Aristotle • Simo Knuuttila
Reason, Experience, and the Knowledge of the Principles in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics 2.19 • Miira Tuominen
Aristotle on ad hominem Arguments • Christoph Horn
Reason and Nature in Ethics
Aristotle on Grasping Moral First Principles • Thomas Tuozzo
‘Learning by Doing’? Aristotle on the Habituation of Moral Character • Jörn Müller
The Functions of Practical Deliberation • Øyvind Rabbås
Practical Truth in Aristotle • Sarah Broadie
Perspectives
Consciousness and Temporality: How Sartre Renews Aristotle • Annick Stevens
Aristotle’s Theory of Nature from the Point of View of our Hermeunetical Situation • Erwin Sonderegger