Aristotle for Everybody : : Difficult Thought Made Easy
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Originally published: New York : Macmillan, c1978.
"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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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Year Published: 1997
Description: xiv, 206 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0684838230
9780684838236
SUBJECTS
Aristotle.