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Each of the two major approaches to Aristotle--the unitarian, which understands his work as forming a single, unified system, and the developmentalist, which seeks a sequence of developing ideas--has inherent limitations. This book proposes a synthetic view of Aristotle that sees development as a change between systematic theories. Setting theories of the so-called logical works beside theories of the physical and metaphysical treatises, Graham shows that Aristotle's doctrines fall into two distinct systems of philosophies that are genetically related. This study--the first major alternative to the unitarian approach since Jaeger pioneered the developmentalist method in 1923--provides a sweeping reappraisal of Aristotle's science and metaphysics and a new approach to the problem of substance presented in the Metaphysics.
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`the book has considerable merit and deserves to be read. The thesis ... is an interesting one, and his arguments for it are learned and well articulated'Review of Metaphysics
`Any investigation of Aristotle's philosophical development must now take Daniel Graham's book as its starting-point, and every serious student of Aristotle should read it.' Times Literary Supplement
`What is new - and what makes Aristotle's Two Systems so exciting - is the way in which Graham has constructed a comprehensive physiognomy of the two metaphysical systems, and the extremely powerful set of exegetical arguments upon which he bases his account of Aristotle's handling of them.' Times Literary Supplement
`This persuasive view of Aristotle has not previously been developed in anything like such a careful and wide-ranging way. It is written with the clarity which one has come to expect in the best Aristotelian scholarship, and is an important contribution to ancient philosophy.' Times Higher Education Supplement
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`Any investigation of Aristotle's philosophical development must now take Daniel Graham's book as its starting-point, and every serious student of Aristotle should read it.' Times Literary Supplement
`What is new - and what makes Aristotle's Two Systems so exciting - is the way in which Graham has constructed a comprehensive physiognomy of the two metaphysical systems, and the extremely powerful set of exegetical arguments upon which he bases his account of Aristotle's handling of them.' Times Literary Supplement
`This persuasive view of Aristotle has not previously been developed in anything like such a careful and wide-ranging way. It is written with the clarity which one has come to expect in the best Aristotelian scholarship, and is an important contribution to ancient philosophy.' Times Higher Education Supplement
There are two dominant approaches to Aristotle: the unitarian and the developmentalist. The author recommends a synthetic view which sees development as a change between systematic theories.
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- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0198249705
- ISBN 13 9780198249702
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages372
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