Aristotle - Philosophy of Aristotle [ed. Bambrough] (Mentor, 1963)

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What is the nature of knowledge, and what are its ultimate grounds? How is the mind related to the body? What is the function and purpose of liter" ature? How is pleasure related to goodness? To what end or ends is human life to be directed? What is the place of the individual in hw man

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What are the ultimate categories of thought and the basic constituents of the universe? Questions posed by Aristotle some two thousand years ago still remain valid in our world today, and his answers to them are still to be ranked among the most pertinent in the field. SELECTIONS FROM Metaphysics, Logic, Physics, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, ' AND Poetics ILLUSTRATE ARISTOTLE S AIM

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TO UNIFY ALL KNOWLEDGE. HIS ORIGINAL CONCEPTS OF CAUSE, FORM, AND PURPOSE, " HIS INSISTENCE THAT TRUTH MUST BE " PREFERRED, REVEAL THE VIGOROUS !MAGI' NATION, INSIGHT, AND ENERGY OF THIS DY' NAMIC PHILOSOPHER, WHOSE APPROACH IS ESSENTIAL

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF

ARISTOTLE A

NEW SELECTION WITH AN INTRODUCTION

AND COMMENTARY BY RENFORD BAMBROUGH NEW TRANSLATIONS BY

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