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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Reading Aristotle [[e-book] ] : argument and exposition / / edited by William Wians, Ron Polansky"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2017"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"90-04-34008-4"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (388 pages)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Philosophia Antiqua, , 0079-1687 ; ; Volume 146"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"185"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and indexes."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Front Matter / William Wians and Ron Polansky -- Introduction / William Wians and Ron Polansky -- Ways of Proving in Aristotle / Marco Zingano -- Aristotle’s Scientific Method / Edward C. Halper -- Aristotle’s Problemata-Style and Aural Textuality / Diana Quarantotto -- Natural Things and Body: The Investigations of Physics / Helen S. Lang -- Surrogate Principles and the Natural Order of Exposition in Aristotle’s De Caelo II / Mariska Leunissen -- Arrangement and Exploratory Discourse in the Parva Naturalia / Philip van der Eijk -- The Place of the De Motu Animalium in Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy / Andrea Falcon -- Is Aristotle’s Account of Sexual Differentiation Inconsistent? / William Wians -- The Concept of Ousia in Metaphysics Alpha, Beta, and Gamma / Vasilis Politis and Jun Su -- Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a Work of Practical Science / Ron Polansky -- Aristotle on the (Alleged) Inferiority of History to Poetry / Thornton C. Lockwood -- Aristotle on the Best Kind of Tragic Plot: Re-reading Poetics 13–14 / Malcolm Heath -- Bibliography / William Wians and Ron Polansky -- Indexes / William Wians and Ron Polansky."]
[{"$nulls":3},"Sommario/riassunto","Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition argues that Aristotle’s treatises must be approached as progressive unfoldings of a unified position that may extend over a single book, an entire treatise, or across several works. Contributors demonstrate that Aristotle relies on both explanatory and expository principles. Explanatory principles include familiar doctrines such as the four causes, actuality’s priority over potentiality and nature’s doing nothing in vain. Expository principles are at least as important. They pertain to proper sequence, "]
[{"$nulls":4},"pedagogical method, the role of reputable views and the opinions of predecessors, the equivocity of key explanatory terms, and the need to scrupulously observe distinctions between the different sciences. A sensitivity to expository principles is crucial to understanding both particular arguments and entire treatises."]