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Free Download Aristotle on Truth, Dialogue, Justice and Decision
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031454847 | 268 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
In this thought-provoking book, you’ll find timeless questions explored through a fresh lens. First delving into the profound significance of Socrates’ dialogical method and the inescapable nature of conflict, it ponders the rational capacities of humanity in terms of establishing harmonious communities. But this isn’t merely a philosophical debate; it’s a pragmatic exploration of real-world challenges.

Free Download Introduction to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by Pavlos Kontos
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 191 Pages | ISBN : 3031419847 | 8.9 MB
This book provides a balanced and accessible introduction to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. It carefully and comprehensively follows the thread of Aristotle’s argument and sheds light on topics that all too often receive little attention or are entirely ignored in the existing textbooks (such as self-control, legislative science and the legislator, the life of the money-maker, craft-knowledge, comprehension, and beastliness).

Free Download J.O. Urmson, "Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 5 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)"
English | 2014 | pages: 206 | ISBN: 1472558464, 0715627651 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle’s Physics , lived in the sixth century A. D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle’s works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle.

Free Download Inna Kupreeva, "Philoponus: On Aristotle On Coming to be and Perishing 2.5-11"
English | 2014 | pages: 233 | ISBN: 1472557751, 071563304X | PDF | 2,4 mb
Until the launch of this series over ten years ago, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or other European languages. Subjects covered in this, the third and last, volume of translation of this work include: why the elements are four in number; what’s wrong with Empedocles’ theory of elements; how homogeneous stuffs, particularly the tissues of a living body, come to be and consist of the elements. The volume also contains very important discussions of causes, particularly of efficient cause, and of necessity in the sphere of generation and corruption. It is of interest to students of ancient philosophy and science (the commentary draws on earlier philosophical and medical texts); of Patristics and Christian Theology (it allows comparison of Philoponus’ later creationist doctrine with his earlier ideas about generation); of medieval philosophy (this text was known to the Arabs; it is used by Avicenna and Averroes); and to anyone with interest in the metaphysics of causation, emergence, necessity and determinism.

Free Download Aristotle’s Ontology of Artefacts
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009340506 | 315 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
It is commonly believed that Aristotle merely uses artefacts as examples or analogical cases. This book, however, shows that Aristotle gives a specific, coherent account of artefacts that in various ways owes much to Plato. Moreover, it proposes a new, definitive solution to the problem of artefacts’ substantiality, which comprises two controversial positions: (i) that Aristotle holds a binary view of substantiality according to which artefacts are not substances at all; (ii) that artefacts fail to be substances because they exhibit less of a unity than natural wholes. Finally, responding to the contemporary debate on ordinary objects, the book identifies the main propositions for an ontology of artefacts that aspires to use Aristotle as its authority and can serve as a guideline for current metaphysical discussions. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Free Download Aristotle’s Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic: Between Tradition and Innovation, 1820s-1930s (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition) by Lukas M. Verburgt, Matteo Cosci, Marco Sgarbi
English | February 23, 2023 | ISBN: 1350228842 | 320 pages | MOBI | 2.32 Mb
Offering a bold new vision on the history of modern logic, Lukas M. Verburgt and Matteo Cosci focus on the lasting impact of Aristotle’s syllogism between the 1820s and 1930s.