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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
A Universal Mind
Aristotle’s Family Background
Education in Athens
The Symposium
Aristotle and Plato
Murky Affairs
Aristotle’s Partners
Gone Fishing
Alexander the Great
The Return to Athens
Aristotle Founds the Lyceum
The Peripatetics
“Sinning Twice”
Evidence of a True Story
The End
A Good Man
His Writings
Lecture Notes
History of Aristotle’s Works
The Arab Connection
The Works
Realist and Relativists
The Eleatic View of Monism
Achilles and the Tortoise
Time and the Arrow
Plato’s Ideal Forms
Ultimate Reality
Empiricism: the Basis of Science
The Middle Way
Definitions and Descriptions
Ontology: the Essential Quality
What is “Is”?
Existence: the Problem of Being
Genus and Species
Thisness
Thisness Is Not An Illusion
The Categories
Aristotle and My Cat
Are the Categories Real?
Science and the Categories
Individual Substances
Universals
The Kinds of Change
Form and Matter
Teleology: Arguing from Design or Purpose
Ancient and Modern Reductionism
Aritotle’s View of Cause
The Nature of Change
Aition or “Type of Explanation”
The Four Causes
Aristotle’s Explanation of Change
The Problem of Purpose
Emergent Features
Natural Things and Artefacts
The Problem of Form
The Metaphysical Solution
Basic Species
The Potential and the Actual
What is Logic?
Logic and Doing Science
A Satisfying Conclusion
Deductive Interference
The Truth of Pythagoras’ Theorem
The Syllogism or Valid Deduction
Higher-level Syllogisms
Rules of Thought
The Two Principles
Induction
The Dialectic
The Agon
Primary Propositions
The Problem of “Noun”
The Great Chain of Being
Determinism
How “Empirical” was Aristotle?
Assumptions and Misconceptions
Aristotle’s Science
Position and Motion
A Theory of the Universe
Incorrect Dynamics
The Cosmos
An Odd Mixture
Psychology
Consciousness: a Product of History
Mind and Body
The Capacities of the Soul
The Brain
The Objects of Sensation
Imagination and Memory
Transformation into Universals
Active and Passive Reason
The Ethics
A Flourishing Life
Eudaimonia
Is Pleasure a Good?
Contemplation Is Happiness
The Influence of Emotions on Reason
The Virtue of the Soul
The Doctrine of the Mean
Generosity and the Average
The Role of the State
Good Advice
Virtue Ethics Today
The Politics
Politics and Ethics
The Family as Political Economy
The Purpose of the City State
The Economy of Slavery
What is the Best Constitution?
Rule by One or Few …
Rule by a Middle Class
The Politics of Education
Politics, Education and Art
Plato’s Condemnation of Art
Aritotle’s Poetics
Techne and Mimesis
Higher Than History
Tragedy and Katharsis
Aritotle’s Unities
The Uses of Rhetoric
The Legacy of Aristotle
Aristotle and Islamic Science
Before Europe
Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas
The Decline of Aristotellanism
Is Aristotle “Scientific”?
Descartes’ Doubt
Does Empiricism Eliminate Doubt?
Hume’s Scepticism
Kant’s Theory of Knowledge
The Importance of Aristotle Today
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
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