- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Icon Books Ltd; illustrated edition edition (8 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1840462337
- ISBN-13: 978-1840462333
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.2 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 350,894 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Aristotle - the "master of those who know". For fifteen hundred years he remained the paradigm of knowledge itself, a foundational thinker in every field of inquiry. Aristotle established a systematic logic, conceived the earliest science, a rational psychology, a political science and an outline of sociology, and gave us a crucial theory of ethics. His contributions to metaphysics continue to permeate modern philosophy. He supplied the first theory of aesthetics, and investigated dialectics and semiotics - essential to debates in postmodernism. Scientific empiricism in the 17th century, however, is said to have discredited his methods. How "scientific" is Aristotle?
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Rupert Woodfin was a lecturer in philosophy at a college in South West England.
Judy Groves is a painter, illustrator and designer who has worked on numerous Introducing titles.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Its a shame our culture does not put more emphasis on its Hellenic roots. Aristotle is a genius, if we had paid more attention to him and other greek philosophers and less time on Jesus and the dogmatic philosophy of monotheistic christianity the world would be a far better place. Aristotle places reason above authority, we need to constantly question the world rather than blindly follow a faith. This book helps redress the balance, its a witty introduction, some of Aristotle's insights can be explained in a few sentences but provide food for thought for a lifetime. It also contains amusing quirky little facts, apparently Aristotle though possessing one of the finest brains in the history of humanity did not know what the Brain actually did; he postutlated that it was for cooling the blood.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Being more familiar with a modern western diet of Platonic derived thinking, especially having the word "post-" prefix, this book came as a massive revelation and I cannot recommend it whole-heartedly enough as an accessible introduction.
It is a deceptively easy beginners guide to a brilliant mind that can lead you into more sound reading. I recommend Martha Nussbaum's 'The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy', which devotes a whole section to delineating Aristotle's arguments, particularly his notion of appearances and inestimatable contribution to the subjects of ethics.
If you eventually get to thumb through more dense interpretations of Aristotle, or even Aristotle translated, the succinct points made in the Introducing Aristotle book should pop into mind and make a lot more sense, as well as offering a compass in navigating the size and scope of Aristotle's oeuvre. He labels many concepts to describe his practical wisdom, which this book goes some way to explaining. Though it might be said that a glossary of other terms would prove wonderfully useful - as the more you read the more you discover Aristotle to have an incredibly inventive penchant for subtley defining the human endeavour.
It is sometimes hard to fathom how someone who existed 400BC can still have a hold over modern philosophy, and reading Plato in conjunction with Aristotle would really set the classical paramaters of Western thought in the newly evolving sophos mind - as well as the maturing one!
The wonders of paradigm shifting that a love of wisdom can afford, and which come with perservence and effort, would be all the poorer without an understanding of Aristotle IMHO. Finally Aristotle is often accused of a remarked dryness in his style of delivery (possibly due to the only surviving works being lecture notes). However the book's visual narrative helps to lighten the understanding somewhat...
It is a deceptively easy beginners guide to a brilliant mind that can lead you into more sound reading. I recommend Martha Nussbaum's 'The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy', which devotes a whole section to delineating Aristotle's arguments, particularly his notion of appearances and inestimatable contribution to the subjects of ethics.
If you eventually get to thumb through more dense interpretations of Aristotle, or even Aristotle translated, the succinct points made in the Introducing Aristotle book should pop into mind and make a lot more sense, as well as offering a compass in navigating the size and scope of Aristotle's oeuvre. He labels many concepts to describe his practical wisdom, which this book goes some way to explaining. Though it might be said that a glossary of other terms would prove wonderfully useful - as the more you read the more you discover Aristotle to have an incredibly inventive penchant for subtley defining the human endeavour.
It is sometimes hard to fathom how someone who existed 400BC can still have a hold over modern philosophy, and reading Plato in conjunction with Aristotle would really set the classical paramaters of Western thought in the newly evolving sophos mind - as well as the maturing one!
The wonders of paradigm shifting that a love of wisdom can afford, and which come with perservence and effort, would be all the poorer without an understanding of Aristotle IMHO. Finally Aristotle is often accused of a remarked dryness in his style of delivery (possibly due to the only surviving works being lecture notes). However the book's visual narrative helps to lighten the understanding somewhat...
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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i found this book, to be informative whilst remaining to be interesting, it gave me a wonderful insight into the works of Aristotle.
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