Aristotle: New Light on His Life and On Some of His Lost Works, Volume 2: Observations on Some of Aristotle's Lost Works (Routledge Library Editions: Aristotle)

Originally published in 1973. Aristotle’s early works probably belong to the formative era of his philosophic thought and as such contribute vitally to the understanding and evaluation of the development of his philosophy. This book shows that the philosophy propagated in these lost works indicates an undeniable Platonism, and thus seems to conflict with the basic doctrines in the traditional treatises collected in the Corpus Aristotelicum . Was the author of the lost early works and the later preserved treatises one and the same person, or were some of these treatises written by members of the Early Peripatus? This, the second of two volumes, discusses in detail certain decisive aspects of Aristotle’s early works. Fascinating hypotheses and conjectures put forward here provoke discussion and further investigation in the ‘Aristotelian Problem’. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Abbreviations Introduction I The Probable Dates of Some of Aristotle’s Lost Works II A Note on Some of the ‘Minor Lost Works’ of Aristotle III Aristotle’s First Literary Effort: The Gryllus—A Work on the Nature of Rhetoric IV Eudemus or On the Soul: An Aristotelian Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul V The Psychology in Aristotle’s Eudemus or On the Soul VI Aristotle's On Justice VII A Brief Account of the Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Protrepticus VIII An Emendation to Fragment 13 (Walzer, Ross) of Aristotle’s Protrepticus IX What Prompted Aristotle to Address the Protrepticus to Themison of Cyprus? X The Term ‘Philosopher’ and the Panegyric Analogy in Aristotle’s Protrepticus XI Aristotle’s Politicus XII The Probable Date of Aristotle’s On Philosophy XIII A Cosmological (Teleological) Proof for the Existence of God in Aristotle’s On Philosophy XIV The Concept of God in Aristotle’s On Philosophy (Cicero, De Natura Deorum I. 13. 33) XV The Doctrine of the Soul in Aristotle’s On Philosophy XVI Aristotle’s On Philosophy and the ‘Philosophies of the East’ XVII Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s ‘Philosopher King’: Some Comments on Aristotle’s On Kingship Conclusion Postscript Werner Jaeger and the Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Lost Works Notes Index of Ancient Authors Index of Modem Authors Originally published in 1973. The predominantly historical approach in this book heralds a belief that a better understanding of Aristotle the man, and the salient events of his life, leads to a greater insight into his work as a philosopher.