Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction

by Barnes, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780192854087
• ISBN10: 0192854089
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography

Jonathan Barnes taught at Oxford for 25 years, being a Fellow first of Oriel and then of Balliol. He then spent eight years at the University of Geneva, before becoming Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Sorbonne. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many publications include The Ontological Argument (Macmillan, 1972); Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Press, 2nd edition 1993); Aristotle (OUP, 1982); The Complete Works of Aristotle (Princeton UP, 1984); Truth, etc. (Clarendon Press, 2007); and Method and Metaphysics: Essays in Ancient Philosophy I (OUP, 2011); with J. Annas, The Modes of Scepticism (CUP, 1985); Early Greek Philosophy (Penguin, 1987); The Toils of Scepticism (CUP, 1990); The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (CUP, 1995); Porphyry: Introduction (Clarendon Press, 2003).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Maps	xii
The Man and His Work	1	(6)
A Public Figure	7	(7)
Zoological Researches	14	(10)
Collecting Facts	24	(6)
The Philosophical Background	30	(9)
The Structure of the Sciences	39	(7)
Logic	46	(7)
Knowledge	53	(6)
Ideal and Achievement	59	(5)
Reality	64	(11)
Change	75	(8)
Causes	83	(9)
Empiricism	92	(5)
Aristotle's World-Picture	97	(8)
Psychology	105	(5)
Evidence and Theory	110	(6)
Teleology	116	(7)
Practical Philosophy	123	(8)
The Arts	131	(5)
Afterlife	136	(7)
References	143	(8)
Chronological Table	151	(2)
Further Reading	153	(4)
Index	157