Aristotle (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Waddell, Helen E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440037957 ISBN 13: 9781440037955

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2012

Synopsis

It haa not commonly been the lot of philosophers, as it is of great poets, that their names should become household words. We should hardly call anE nglishman well read if he had not heard the name of Sophocles or Molifere. An educated man is expected to know at least who these great writers were, and to understand an allusion to the Antigone or Le Misanthrope. But we call a man well read if his mind is stored with the verse of poets and the prose of historians, even though he were ignorant of the name of Descartes or Kant. Yet there are a few philosophers whose influence on thought and language has been so extensive that no one who reads can be ignorant of their names, and that every man who speaks the language of educated Europeans is constantly using their vocabulary. A mong this few Aristotle holds not the lowest place. We have all heard of him, as we have all heard of Homer. He has left his impress so firmly on theology that many of the formulae of the Churches are unintelligible without acquaintance with his conception of the universe. If we are interested in the growth of modern science we shall readily discover for ourselves that some knowledge of Aristotelianism is necessary for the understanding of Bacon and Galileo and the other great anti-A ristotelians who created the modem scientific view of Nature. If we turn to the imaginative literature of the modern languages, Dante is a sealed book, and many a passage of Chaucer andS hakespeare and Milton is half unmeaning to us unless we are at home in the outlines of Aristotle sphilosophy.
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Other works by the renowned classical scholar, translator, and literary critic Francis Fergusson include "The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays," "Sallies of the Mind: Essays," "Trope and Allegory: Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare," and "Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the "Purgatorio.
Translator and scholar S. H. Butcher served as editor for the Dover Thift Edition of the "Poetics," as well as for the "Orationes, Volume 1" by Demosthenes. Butcher is also the author of "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art,"
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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440037957
• ISBN 13: 9781440037955
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102