Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle Series) - Softcover

Aristotle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198240899 ISBN 13: 9780198240891

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1994

Synopsis

The Posterior Analytics contains some of Aristotle's most influential thoughts in logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of science. The first book expounds and develops the notions of a demonstrative argument and of a formal, axiomatized science; the second discusses a cluster of problems raised by the axioms or principles of such a science, and investigates in particular the theory of definition. This volume is intended to serve the needs of readers of Aristotle without a knowledge of Greek; for this second edition the translation has been completely rewritten, with the aims of greater elegance and greater fidelity to the Greek. The commentary elucidates and assesses Aristotle's arguments from a philosophical point of view; it has been extensively revised to take account of the scholarship of the last twenty years.

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan Barnes is at Balliol College, Oxford.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0198240899
• ISBN 13: 9780198240891
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 328