Every area of human study or intellectual enquiry, even every action we engage in, has some final purpose in mind, some end goal. Aristotle’s philosophy is inherently teleological, meaning it always looks towards the final goal of an activity. The end goal of fields like medicine is to restore health, shipbuilding to build seaworthy vessels, [...]
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Booklist 2009 # 30: Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (trans. W. D. Ross)
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Booklist 2008 # 48: Poetics by Aristotle (trans. Ingram Bywater)
Posted in Aristotle, Book List 2008, Reviews, tagged Booklist 2008, Reviews on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many of the ideas of Aristotle’s influential treatise on art still dominate our aesthetic judgements today. It’s a testament to the book’s power that the Poetics often headlines many a graduate literary theory course, even if in some people’s minds newer theories have since replaced the supposedly “outmoded” views of Aristotle. It is amazing nonetheless [...]
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