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Aristotle: A Biographical Study (Classic Reprint)
Aristotle A Biographical Study - Classic Reprint Author:A. E. Taylor It has not commonly been tho lot of philosophers, as it is of great poets, that their names should become household words. "Wo should hardly call an Englishman well read if he had not heard the name of Sophocles or Molierc. An educated man is expected to know at least who these great writers were, aud to understand an allusion to the Antigone or... more » Lt Misanthrope, But we call a man well read if his mind is stored with the verse of poets and the prose of historians, oven though he were ignorant of the name of Descartes or Kant, Yet there are a few philosophers whose influence on thought and language has been bo extensive that no one who reads can be ignorant of their names, and that every man who speaks the language of educated Europeans is constantly using their vocabulary. Among this few Aristotle holds not the lowest place. We have all heard of bim, as wo have all heard of Homer. He has left his impress so fir inly on theology that many of the formulae of tho Churches are unintelligibl
Table of Contents
CHAP, PAGE; i life and "works 7; ii the classification of the sciences : scientific; method 14; iii first philosophy 35; iv physics 51; v practical philosophy , 72; bibliography ,> 91; m
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