Zhan Zhuang

The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, and Japan; it also, appropriately, includes a preponderance of authors from the University of Oxford, which has been a center of Aristotelian studies for many centuries. The volume equally reflects the broad range of activity Aristotelian studies comprise today: such activity ranges from the primarily textual and philological to the application of broadly Aristotelian themes to contemporary problems irrespective of their narrow textual fidelity. In between these extremes one finds the core of Aristotelian scholarship as it is practiced today, and as it is primarily represented in this Handbook: textual exegesis and criticism. Even within this more limited core activity, one witnesses a rich range of pursuits, with some scholars seeking primarily to understand Aristotle in his own philosophical milieu and others seeking rather to place him into direct conversation with contemporary philosophers and their present-day concerns. No one of these enterprises exhausts the field. On the contrary, one of the most welcome and enlivening features of the contemporary Aristotelian scene is precisely the cross-fertilization these mutually beneficial and complementary activities offer one another. The volume, prefaced with an introduction to Aristotle's life and works by the editor, covers the main areas of Aristotelian philosophy and intellectual enquiry: ethics, metaphysics, politics, logic, language, psychology, rhetoric, poetics, theology, physical and biological investigation, and philosophical method. It also, and distinctively, looks both backwards and forwards: two chapters recount Aristotle's treatment of earlier philosophers, who proved formative to his own orientations and methods, and another three chapters chart the long afterlife of Aristotle's philosophy, in Late Antiquity, in the Islamic World, and in the Latin West."--Publisher's website "The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, and Japan; it also, appropriately, includes a preponderance of authors from the University of Oxford, which has been a center of Aristotelian studies for many centuries. The volume equally reflects the broad range of activity Aristotelian studies comprise today : such activity ranges from the primarily textual and philological to the application of broadly Aristotelian themes to contemporary problems irrespective of their narrow textual fidelity. In between these extremes one finds the core of Aristotelian scholarship as it is practiced today, and as it is primarily represented in this Handbook : textual exegesis and criticism. Even within this more limited core activity, one witnesses a rich range of pursuits, with some scholars seeking primarily to understand Aristotle in his own philosophical milieu and others seeking rather to place him into direct conversation with contemporary philosophers and their present-day concerns. No one of these enterprises exhausts the field. On the contrary, one of the most welcome and enlivening features of the contemporary Aristotelian scene is precisely the cross-fertilization these mutually beneficial and complementary activities offer one another. The volume, prefaced with an introduction to Aristotle's life and works by the editor, covers the main areas of Aristotelian philosophy and intellectual inquiry : ethics, metaphysics, politics, logic, language, psychology, rhetoric, poetics, theology, physical and biological investigation, and philosophical method. It also, and distinctively, looks both backwards and forwards : two chapters recount Aristotle's treatment of earlier philosophers, who proved formative to his own orientations and methods, and another three chapters chart the long afterlife of Aristotle's philosophy, in Late Antiquity, in the Islamic World, and in the Latin West."--Publisher's website ## Abstract This book reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from across the globe, and including a preponderance of authors from the University of Oxford, which has been a center of Aristotelian studies for many centuries. It explores the broad range of activity Aristotelian studies comprise today, including the primarily textual and philological to the application of broadly Aristotelian themes to contemporary problems irrespective of their narrow textual fidelity. In between these extremes one finds the core of Aristotelian scholarship as it is practiced today, and as it is primarily represented in this volume: textual exegesis and criticism. Even within this more limited core activity, one witnesses a rich range of pursuits, with some scholars seeking primarily to understand Aristotle in his own philosophical milieu and others seeking rather to place him into direct conversation with contemporary philosophers and their present-day concerns. The book, prefaced with an introduction to Aristotle's life and works by the editor, covers the main areas of Aristotelian philosophy and intellectual enquiry: ethics, metaphysics, politics, logic, language, psychology, rhetoric, poetics, theology, physical and biological investigation, and philosophical method. It also looks both backwards and forwards: two articles recount Aristotle's treatment of earlier philosophers, who proved formative to his own orientations and methods, and another three chart the long afterlife of Aristotle's philosophy: in Late Antiquity, in the Islamic World, and in the Latin West. Copyright 2 Acknowledgements 4 Preface 5 Notes on the Contributors 8 Abbreviations of Aristotle's Works 16 I. Aristotle's Philosophical Milieu 18 1 Aristotle's Philosophical Life and Writings 18 2 Aristotle on Earlier Natural Science 34 3 Science and Scientific Inquiry in Aristotle: A Platonic Provenance 64 II. The Framework of Philosophy: Tools and Methods 80 4 Aristotle's Categorial Scheme 80 5 De Interpretatione 99 6 Aristotle's Logic 134 7 Aristotle's Philosophical Method 184 8 Aristotle on Heuristic Inquiry and Demonstration of What it is 206 III. Explanation and Nature 238 9 Alteration and Persistence: Form and Matter in the Physics and De Generatione et Corruptione 238 10 Teleological Causation 261 11 Aristotle on the Infinite 303 12 The Complexity of Aristotle's Study of Animals 323 13 Aristotle on the Separability of Mind 344 IV. Being and Beings 382 14 Being Qua Being 382 15 Substances, Coincidentals, and Aristotle's Constituent Ontology 412 16 Energeia and Dunamis 441 17 Aristotle's Theology 464 18 Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics 509 19 Conceptions of Happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics 537 20 Aristotle on Becoming Good: Habituation, Reflection, and Perception 571 21 Aristotle's Politics 599 VI. Rhetoric and the Arts 627 22 Aristotle on the Moral Psychology of Persuasion 627 23 Aristotle on Poetry 650 VII. After Aristotle 666 24 Meaning: Ancient Comments on Five Lines of Aristotle 666 25 Aristotle in the Arabic Commentary Tradition 684 26 The Latin Aristotle 706 General Bibliography 733 Index Locorum 738 Index Nominum 754 Subject Index 763 The,Oxford,Handbook,of,Aristotle