Aristotle for everybody : difficult thought made easy / Mortimer J. Adler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997.Edition: 1st Touchstone edDescription: xiv, 206 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0684838230
  • 9780684838236
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 185 A237a 21
LOC classification:
  • B485 .A35 1997
Contents:
Philosophical games -- The great divide -- Man's three dimensions -- Aristotle's Crusoe -- Change and permanence -- The four causes -- To be and not to be -- Productive ideas and know-how -- Thinking about ends and means -- Living and living well -- Good, better, best -- How to pursue happiness -- Good habits and good luck -- What others have a right to expect from us -- What we have a right to expect from others and from the state -- What goes into the mind and what comes out of it -- Logic's little words -- Telling the truth and thinking it -- Beyond a reasonable doubt -- Infinity -- Eternity -- The immateriality of the mind -- God -- Epilogue : for those who have read or wish to read Aristotle.
Summary: Offers an imaginative perspective on Aristotelian logic, presenting an exploration of nature, society, and man in light of commonplace events and reexamining concepts of body, mind, change, cause, part, whole, one, and many.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206).

"A Touchstone book."

Philosophical games -- The great divide -- Man's three dimensions -- Aristotle's Crusoe -- Change and permanence -- The four causes -- To be and not to be -- Productive ideas and know-how -- Thinking about ends and means -- Living and living well -- Good, better, best -- How to pursue happiness -- Good habits and good luck -- What others have a right to expect from us -- What we have a right to expect from others and from the state -- What goes into the mind and what comes out of it -- Logic's little words -- Telling the truth and thinking it -- Beyond a reasonable doubt -- Infinity -- Eternity -- The immateriality of the mind -- God -- Epilogue : for those who have read or wish to read Aristotle.

Offers an imaginative perspective on Aristotelian logic, presenting an exploration of nature, society, and man in light of commonplace events and reexamining concepts of body, mind, change, cause, part, whole, one, and many.

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