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Free Download Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
by Aristotle
English | 2013 | ASIN: B00BFKAF3Q | 9169 Pages | AZW3 | 9 MB

Free Download Aristotle’s "Rhetoric": Philosophical Essays By David J. Furley; Alejandro Nehamas
2015 | 340 Pages | ISBN: 1400872871 | PDF | 26 MB
In the field of philosophy, Plato’s view of rhetoric as a potentially treacherous craft has long overshadowed Aristotle’s view, which focuses on rhetoric as an independent discipline that relates in complex ways to dialectic and logic and to ethics and moral psychology. This volume, composed of essays by internationally renowned philosophers and classicists, provides the first extensive examination of Aristotle’s Rhetoric and its subject matter in many years. One aim is to locate both Aristotle’s treatise and its subject within the more general context of his philosophical treatment of other disciplines, including moral and political theory as well as poetics. The contributors also seek to illuminate the structure of Aristotle’s own conception of rhetoric as presented in his treatise. The first section of the book, which deals with the arguments of rhetoric, contains essays by M. F. Burnyeat and Jacques Brunschwig. A section treating the status of the art of rhetoric features pieces by Eckart Schütrumpf, Jürgen Sprute, M. M. McCabe, and Glenn W. Most. Essays by John M. Cooper, Stephen Halliwell, and Jean-Louis Labarrière address topics related to rhetoric, ethics, and politics. The final section, on rhetoric and literary art, comprises essays by Alexander Nehamas and André Laks. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Free Download Stephen Theron, "Systematised Logic from Aristotle to Aquinas, Hegel and Beyond"
English | ISBN: 1527550923 | 2023 | 175 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Thought, rather than being mere transcendence of the immediate (or "empirical"), is contemplation’s initial emergence from finite scientific understanding towards philosophic truth, sophia (Hegel on atomism’s history). We move from finite paradox to infinite contradiction, to "the bewitchment of intelligence by language" (Wittgenstein). The contradiction is a real fault of language and its discursive reasoning. Hegel denies partes extra partes. This book identifies absolute idealism as "the true realism", only expressible in apparent contradiction, unless we consider certain discrete reductions of such absolute spirituality to mundane vacuity, tackling instead the elusive theme of direct divine grace in human destiny. In the book, faith’s credentials as our link to the infinite are considered. It provides a unique analogy which likens faith to absolute knowledge, finite to infinite, mediating the "development of doctrine" through ignorance.

Free Download Politics: Books I and II (Clarendon Aristotle Series) (Bks.1 & 2) By Aristotle
1995 | 194 Pages | ISBN: 019824892X | PDF | 11 MB
The Politics is one of Aristotle’s most important works, having had an inestimable influence on political thought up until the present day. This volume provides a clear and accurate translation of the first two books together with helpful philosophical commentary.

Free Download Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics By Aristotle
2011 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0226026744 | PDF | 6 MB
The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle’s most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics-that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence-found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called "the Philosopher." Drawing on their intimate knowledge of Aristotle’s thought, Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins have produced here an English-language translation of the Ethics that is as remarkably faithful to the original as it is graceful in its rendering. Aristotle is well known for the precision with which he chooses his words, and in this elegant translation his work has found its ideal match. Bartlett and Collins provide copious notes and a glossary providing context and further explanation for students, as well as an introduction and a substantial interpretive essay that sketch central arguments of the work and the seminal place of Aristotle’s Ethics in his political philosophy as a whole. The Nicomachean Ethics has engaged the serious interest of readers across centuries and civilizations-of peoples ancient, medieval, and modern; pagan, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish-and this new edition will take its place as the standard English-language translation.

Free Download Aristotle: Poetics By Aristotle
2006 | 80 Pages | ISBN: 1585101877 | PDF | 2 MB
A complete translation of Aristotle’s classic that is both faithful and readable, along with an introduction that provides the modern reader with a means of understanding this seminal work and its impact on our culture. In this volume, Joe Sachs (translator of Aristotle’s Physics, Metaphysics, and the Nicomachean Ethics )also supplements his excellent translation with well-chosen notes and glossary of important terms.Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Aristotle’s immediate audience.

Free Download Aristotle: Poetics By Aristotle
2006 | 80 Pages | ISBN: 1585101877 | PDF | 2 MB
A complete translation of Aristotle’s classic that is both faithful and readable, along with an introduction that provides the modern reader with a means of understanding this seminal work and its impact on our culture. In this volume, Joe Sachs (translator of Aristotle’s Physics, Metaphysics, and the Nicomachean Ethics )also supplements his excellent translation with well-chosen notes and glossary of important terms.Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Aristotle’s immediate audience.

Free Download Aristotle On Poetics By Aristotle, Seth Benardete, Michael Davis
2002 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 1587310252 | PDF | 9 MB
Aristotle’s much-translated On Poetics is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy as a literary form. The late Seth Benardete and Michael Davis have translated it anew with a view to rendering Aristotle’s text into English as precisely as possible. A literal translation has long been needed, for in order to excavate the argument of On Poetics one has to attend not simply to what is said on the surface but also to the various puzzles, questions, and peculiarities that emerge only on the level of how Aristotle says what he says and thereby leads one to revise and deepen one’s initial understanding of the intent of the argument. As On Poetics is about how tragedy ought to be composed, it should not be surprising that it turns out to be a rather artful piece of literature in its own right. Benardete and Davis supplement their edition of On Poetics with extensive notes and appendices. They explain nuances of the original that elude translation, and they provide translations of passages found elsewhere in Aristotle’s works as well as in those of other ancient authors that prove useful in thinking through the argument of On Poetics both in terms of its treatment of tragedy and in terms of its broader concerns. By following the connections Aristotle Descriptions between On Poetics and his other works, readers will be in a position to appreciate the centrality of this work for his entire thought.In an introduction that sketches the overall interpretation of On Poetics presented in hisThe Poetry of Philosophy (St. Augustine’s Press, 1999; see p. 33 of this catalogue), Davis argues that, while On Poetics is certainly about tragedy, it has a further concern extending beyond poetry to the very structure of the human soul in its relation to what is, and that Aristotle reveals in the form of his argument the true character of human action.

Free Download Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) By Aristotle
2000 | 259 Pages | ISBN: 0521635462 | PDF | 2 MB
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, based on lectures that he gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy, and has profoundly influenced the whole course of subsequent philosophical endeavor. Topics covered include the role of luck in human wellbeing, responsibility, courage, justice, friendship and pleasure. This accessible new translation follows the Greek text closely and also provides a non-Greek reader with something of the flavor of the original. The volume also includes a historical and philosophical introduction and notes on further reading.

Free Download Aristotle: Metaphysics Theta: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (Clarendon Aristotle) (Clarendon Aristotle Series) By Philosoph Aristoteles; Stephen Makin
2006 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0198751087 | PDF | 2 MB
Stephen Makin presents a clear and accurate new translation of an influential and much-discussed part of Aristotle’s philosophical system, accompanied by an analytical and critical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. In Book Theta of the Metaphysics Aristotle introduces the concepts of actuality and potentiality-which were to remain central to philosophical analysis into the modern era-and explores the distinction between the actual and the potential.