Reading Aristotle : argument and exposition

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Reading Aristotle : argument and exposition

Title remainder

argument and exposition

Statement of responsibility

edited by William Wians, Ron Polansky

Contributor

• Polansky, Ronald M., 1948-
• Wians, William Robert

Editor

• Wians, William Robert
• Polansky, Ronald M., 1948-

Subject

• Rhetoric
• Aristotle
• Aristotle
• Aristotle -- Knowledge | Rhetoric
• Explanation
• Explanation
• Exposition (Rhetoric)
• Exposition (Rhetoric)
• PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys | Ancient & Classical

Language

eng

Summary

Reading Aristotle argues that Aristotle's treatises must be approached as progressive unfoldings of a unified position that may extend over a single book, an entire treatise, or across several works. Contributors demonstrate that Aristotle relies on both explanatory and expository principles. Explanatory principles include familiar doctrines such as the four causes, actuality's priority over potentiality, and nature's doing nothing in vain. Expository principles are at least as important. They pertain to proper sequence, pedagogical method, the role of reputable views and the opinions of predecessors, the equivocity of key explanatory terms, and the need scrupulously to observe distinctions between the different sciences. A sensitivity to expository principles is crucial to understanding both particular arguments and entire treatises

Member of

• Philosophia antiqua, v. 146.
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

185

Index

index present

LC call number

B485

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Philosophia antiqua

Series volume

Volume 146