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Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning - The Posterior Analytics (Hardcover)
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Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning - The Posterior Analytics (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
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'All teaching and all intellectual learning come to be from
pre-existing knowledge.' So begins Aristotle's Posterior Analytics,
one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of
western philosophy. David Bronstein sheds new light on this
challenging text by arguing that it is coherently structured around
two themes of enduring philosophical interest: knowledge and
learning. The Posterior Analytics, on Bronstein's reading, is a
sustained examination of scientific knowledge: what it is and how
it is acquired. Aristotle first discusses two principal forms of
scientific knowledge (epist?m? and nous). He then provides a
compelling account, in reverse order, of the types of learning one
needs to undertake in order to acquire them. The Posterior
Analytics thus emerges as an elegantly organized work in which
Aristotle describes the mind's ascent from sense-perception of
particulars to scientific knowledge of first principles. Bronstein
also highlights Plato's influence on Aristotle's text. For each
type of learning Aristotle discusses, Bronstein uncovers an
instance of Meno's Paradox (a puzzle from Plato's Meno according to
which inquiry and learning are impossible) and a solution to it. In
addition, he argues, against current orthodoxy, that Aristotle is
committed to the Socratic Picture of inquiry, according to which
one should seek what a thing's essence is before seeking its
demonstrable attributes and their causes. Aristotle on Knowledge
and Learning will be of interest to students and scholars of
ancient philosophy, epistemology, or philosophy of science.
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