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Icon Books Ltd (2010), 176 pages
Description
Aristotle - the master of those who know. For fifteen hundred years he remained the paradigm of knowledge itself, a foundational thinker in every field of inquiry. Aristotle established a systematic logic, conceived the earliest science, a rational psychology, a political science and an outline of sociology, and gave us a crucial theory of ethics. His contributions to metaphysics continue to permeate modern philosophy. He supplied the first theory of aesthetics, and investigated dialectics and semiotics - essential to debates in postmodernism. Scientific empiricism in the 17th century, however, is said to have discredited his methods. How scientific is Aristotle?
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LibraryThing member jpsnow
Creative and fast overview that still conveys some of the deeper concepts and the impact on later schools of thought. I find this series very effective relative to many of the other approaches to survey.
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English
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176 p.; 4.5 inches
ISBN
1848311699 / 9781848311695