Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1.14-22

Ian Mueller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2014
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-5848-0 (ISBN)

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The commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.8-22 is a very important text, being the main ancient commentary with chapters in which Aristotle invented modal logic - the logic of propositions about what is necessary or contingent (possible). The first volume of Ian Mueller's translation covered chapters 1.8-13, and reached as far as the chapter in which Aristotle discussed the notion of contingency. In this, the second volume, the 'greatest' commentator, Alexander, concludes his discussion of Aristotle's modal logic.
Aristotle also invented the syllogism, a style of argument involving two premises and a conclusion. Modal propositions can be deployed in syllogisms, and in the chapters included in this volume Aristotle discusses all the syllogisms containing at least one contingent premiss.
In each volume, Ian Mueller provides a comprehensive explanation of Alexander's commentary on modal logic as a whole.

Ian Mueller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Josiah Gould is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Albany.

Preface
Introduction
Textual Emendations
TRANSLATION
Notes
Bibliography English-Greek
Glossary Greek-English Index
Index of Passages Cited
Subject
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.4.2014
Reihe/Serie	Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-4725-5848-0 / 1472558480
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-5848-0 / 9781472558480
Zustand	Neuware