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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.
Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, which can be
understood as a philosophical debate between a questioner and a
respondent. In book 2, Aristotle mainly develops strategies for
making deductions about 'accidents', which are properties that
might or might not belong to a subject (for instance, Socrates has
five fingers, but might have had six), and about properties that
simply belong to a subject without further specification. In the
present commentary, here translated into English for the first
time, Alexander develops a careful study of Aristotle's text. He
preserves objections and replies from other philosophers whose work
is now lost, such as the Stoics. He also offers an invaluable
picture of the tradition of Aristotelian logic down to his time,
including innovative attempts to unify Aristotle's guidance for
dialectic with his general theory of deductive argument (the
syllogism), found in the Analytics. The work will be of interest
not only for its perspective on ancient logic, rhetoric, and
debate, but also for its continuing influence on argument in the
Middle Ages and later.
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.
Aristotle’s Topics is a handbook for dialectic, which can be
understood as a philosophical debate between a questioner and a
respondent. In book 2, Aristotle mainly develops strategies for
making deductions about ‘accidents’, which are properties that
might or might not belong to a subject (for instance, Socrates has
five fingers, but might have had six), and about properties that
simply belong to a subject without further specification. In the
present commentary, here translated into English for the first
time, Alexander develops a careful study of Aristotle’s text. He
preserves objections and replies from other philosophers whose work
is now lost, such as the Stoics. He also offers an invaluable
picture of the tradition of Aristotelian logic down to his time,
including innovative attempts to unify Aristotle’s guidance for
dialectic with his general theory of deductive argument (the
syllogism), found in the Analytics. The work will be of interest
not only for its perspective on ancient logic, rhetoric, and
debate, but also for its continuing influence on argument in the
Middle Ages and later.
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