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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 3 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,051
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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 3 (Hardcover): Laura M. Castelli

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 3 (Hardcover)

Laura M. Castelli

Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

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Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, i.e. the exercise for philosophical debates between a questioner and a respondent. Alexander takes the Topics as a sort of handbook teaching how to defend and how attack any philosophical claim against philosophical adversaries. In book 3, Aristotle develops strategies for arguing about comparative claims, in which properties are said to belong to subjects to a greater, lesser, or equal degree. Aristotle illustrates the different argumentative patterns that can be used to establish or refute a comparative claim through one single example: whether something is more or less or equally to be chosen or to be avoided than something else. In his commentary on Topics 3, here translated for the first time into English, Alexander of Aphrodisias spells out Aristotle's text by referring to issues and examples from debates with other philosophical school (especially: the Stoics) of his time. The commentary provides new evidence for Alexander's views on the logic of comparison and is a relatively neglected source for Peripatetic ethics in late antiquity. This volume will be valuable reading for students of Aristotle and of the developments of Peripatetic logic and ethics in late antiquity.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Release date: November 2021
Editors: Laura M. Castelli
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-21466-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
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LSN: 1-350-21466-3
Barcode: 9781350214668

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