Aristotle: New Light on His Life and On Some of His Lost Works, Volume 2: Observations on Some of Aristotle’s Lost Works

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by  Anton-Hermann Chroust

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ARISTOTLE
Volume 2
ARISTOTLE: NEW LIGHT ON HIS LIFE AND ON
SOME OF HIS LOST WORKS VOLUME 2
ARISTOTLE: NEW LIGHT ON HIS LIFE AND ON
SOME OF HIS LOST WORKS VOLUME 2
Observations on some of Aristotle’s lost works
ANTON-HERMANN CHROUST
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ARISTOTLE
New light on his life and on some of his lost works
Volume II
Observations on some of Aristotle’s lost works
Anton-Hermann Chroust

First published in 1973
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Hermann Chroust 1973
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To the Memory of Roscoe Pound Teacher, Friend,
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Contents
Volume II
Observations on some of Aristotle’s lost works
Abbreviations
Introduction
I The Probable Dates of Some of Aristotle’s Lost Works
II A Note on Some of the ‘Minor Lost Works’ of Aristotle
III Aristotle’s First Literary Effort: The Gryllus —A Work on the Nature of Rhetoric
IV Eudemus or On the Soul : An Aristotelian Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul
V The Psychology in Aristotle’s Eudemus or On the Soul
VI Aristotle’s On Justice
VII A Brief Account of the Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Protrepticus
VIII An Emendation to Fragment 13 (Walzer, Ross) of Aristotle’s Protrepticus
IX What Prompted Aristotle to Address the Protrepticus to Themison of Cyprus?
X The Term ‘Philosopher’ and the Panegyric Analogy in Aristotle’s Protrepticus
XI Aristotle’s Politicus
XII The Probable Date of Aristotle’s On Philosophy
XIII A Cosmological (Teleological) Proof for the Existence of God in Aristotle’s On Philosophy
XIV The Concept of God in Aristotle’s On Philosophy (Cicero, De Natura Deorum I. 13. 33)
XV The Doctrine of the Soul in Aristotle’s On Philosophy
XVI Aristotle’s On Philosophy and the ‘Philosophies of the East’
XVII Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s ‘Philosopher King’: Some Comments on Aristotle’s On Kingship
Conclusion
Postscript Werner Jaeger and the Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Lost Works
Notes
Index of Ancient Authors
Index of Modern Authors
Abbreviations
Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
DL
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I. Epistola ad Ammaeum
DH
Vita Aristotelis Hesychii (Vita Menagiana, Vita Menagii )
VH
Vita Aristotelis Marciana
VM
Vita Aristotelis Vulgata (Vita Pseudo-Ammoniana, Vita Pseudo-Elias )
VV
Vita Aristotelis Latina
VL
I Vita Aristotelis Syriaca (author unknown), Cod. Berol. Sachau 226
IVS
II Vita Aristotelis Syriaca (author unknown), Cod. Vat. Syriacus 158
II VS
I Vita Aristotelis Arabica (Ibn Abi Yaqub an-Nadim, Kitab al-Fihrist )
IVA