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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 3 (Hardcover)
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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 3 (Hardcover)
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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