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Aristotle : a guide for the perplexed /

For more than a millennium, Aristotle was regarded as the foremost authority in the western world in nearly every subject. His corpus spans a daunting array of subjects and he made significant contributions to every known field of inquiry in the ancient world. Every student of philosophy will encoun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vella, John A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, 2008.
Colección:Guides for the perplexed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Science (episteme)
  • Division of the sciences according to aims and objects
  • Demonstration (apodeixis)
  • The axioms of the sciences
  • Being or substance (ousia)
  • Being before aristotle
  • Being in the categories
  • The science of being: first philosophy
  • Being in metaphysics zeta
  • Nature (physis)
  • Principles of change
  • The four causes or explanations (aitiai)
  • Defense of teleology
  • Soul (psyche)
  • Soul as substance, form and actuality
  • What the student of soul investigates
  • Perception
  • Thought
  • Success (eudaimonia)
  • The practical science of ethics
  • The chief and final good for human beings
  • Virtues of character
  • Virtues of intellect.