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Five books on Aristotle
« on: August 13, 2018, 03:59:27 PM »
Interesting article in the 5 Books series, Aristotle is such a wide-ranging thinker that he is sometimes too burdened with 'The Father of ....' titles to be seen clearly.


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Re: Five books on Aristotle
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2018, 05:50:15 PM »
Read his "Poetics" some years ago. He constantly gives references to various plays which were extant in his day, but have been lost for centuries, which is a bit frustrating. His literary theories are still influential, though. Will get round to reading some of his other stuff some day.
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Re: Five books on Aristotle
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2018, 02:34:34 PM »
Read some Aristole. Tried the Metaphysics once but to be honest I didn't understand much of it.
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