Aristotle's de Interpretatione: Contradiction and Dialectic

ISBN-13: 9780198236191 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 248 str.

C. W. A. Whitaker

Opis

De Interpretatione is among Aristotle's most influential and widely read writings; C. W. A. Whitaker presents the first systematic study of this work, and offers a radical new view of its aims, its structure, and its place in Arisotle's system. He shows that De Interpretatione is not a disjointed essay on ill- connected subjects, as traditionally thought, but a highly organized and systematic treatise on logic, argument, and dialectic.

Recenzje

In this beautifully lucid and carefully reasoned monograph, the conventional wisdom is triumphantly refuted. Whitaker takes us through the de Interpretatione chapter by chapter, displaying it as a sequence of lessons for would-be dialecticians. he casts much new light on the overall structure and purpose of the remarks... Before reading Whitaker, I too was in thrall to conventional wisdom; after reading Whitaker, things seemed to come into proper focus for the first time. Whitaker... uses his ingenuity to construct a reading that confronts, rather than evades, the subtleties of Aristotle's discussion, and to give, for the first time that I know of, a plausible account of them.

O autorze

C. W. A. Whitaker was trained in classics and philosophy at the Universities of Cambridge and Chicago; he is now Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge.