Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations and Method of Citation Preface PART I: "THE PHILOSOPHER"? 1. The Man and His Work 1.1 The Man 1.2 The Work 2. Researcher, Scholar, and Philosopher PART II: KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE 3. The Phenomenology of Knowledge 3.1 Propaedeutic? 3.2 An Epistemic Hierarchy 3.3 Freedom and Self-realization 4. Forms of Rationality 4.1 Syllogistics 4.2 Dialectic (Topics) 4.3 Rhetoric 4.4 Poetics: Tragedy 5. Proofs and Principles 5.1 A Critique of Demonstrative Reason 5.2 Axioms and Other Principles 5.3 Induction and Mind 6. Four Methodical Maxims 6.1 Establishing the Phenomena 6.2 Doctrines 6.3 Difficulties 6.4 Linguistic Analysis PART III: PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS 7. Natural Philosophy 7.1 Aristotelian Natural Science 7.2 Motion 7.3 The Four Causes 7.4 Continuum, the Infinite, Place, and Time 8. Biology and Psychology 8.1 Aristotle the Zoologist 8.2 Teleonomy: Organisms, Procreation, and Heredity 8.3 The Soul 9. First Philosophy, or Metaphysics 10. Cosmology and Theology 10.1 Meta-physics 10.2 The Cosmological Concept of God 10.3 An Ethical Concept of God? 11. Ontology and Language 11.1 Categories 11.2 Substance 11.3 Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Ideas 11.4 On Language PART IV: ETHICS AND POLITICS 12. Practical Philosophy 12.1 The Autonomy of Ethics 12.2 The Goal Is Action 12.3 Outline Knowledge 13. Theory of Action 13.1 The Basic Concept of Desire 13.2 Decision and Power of Judgment 13.3 Weakness of the Will 13.4 Does Aristotle Know the Concept of Will? 14. The Good Life 14.1 The Principle of Happiness 14.2 The Virtues of Character 14.3 Justice, Natural Law, and Equity 14.4 Theoretical or Political Existence? 15. Political Anthropology 15.1 The Relevance of the Politics 15.2 "Political by Nature" 15.3 Friendship and Other Prerequisites 16. Political Justice 16.1 Elementary Inequalities 16.2 Rule of the Free over the Free 16.3 Democracy or Polity? PART V: The RECEPTION 17. Antiquity and the Middle Ages 17.1 Antiquity 17.2 Christianity, Islam, and Judaism 17.3 The Great Aristotelian Renaissance 18. The Modern Age and the Present 18.1 Detachment and Renewed Interest 18.2 Aristotle Research and Neo-Aristotelianisms Chronology Bibliography Index of Personal Names General Index

About the Author

Otfried Hoffe is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Tubingen and the author of many books, including Immanuel Kant, also published by SUNY Press.