The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle

433 Pages·2014·6.69 MB·English

by  Claudia Baracchi

The Bloomsbury

Companion to Aristotle
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THE BLOOMSBURY

COMPANION TO ARISTOTLE
EDITED BY
Claudia Baracchi
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Rémi Brague, “Sur la formule aristotélicienne Ὅ ΠΟΤΕ ὌΝ (Physique, IV, 11 et 14),”
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The Bloomsbury companion to Aristotle / edited by Claudia Baracchi.
pages cm.—(Bloomsbury companions)
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ISBN 978-1-4411-0873-9—ISBN 978-1-4411-9472-5 (pdf)—ISBN 978-1-4411-4854-4
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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments vii
Corpus Aristotelicum viii
List of Contributors xi
INTRODUCTION: PATHS OF INQUIRY 1
Part I: Questions 17
Logos 19
1. SAYING WHAT ONE SEES, LETTING SEE WHAT ONE SAYS:
ARISTOTLE’S RHETORIC AND THE RHETORIC OF THE SOPHISTS 21
2. ARISTOTELIAN DEFINITION: ON THE DISCOVERY OF ArCHAi 41
Phusis 57
3. ARISTOTLE ON SENSIBLE OBJECTS: NATURAL THINGS AND BODY 59
4. ON ARISTOTLE’S FORMULA Ὅ Πote ὌN: PHySiCS IV.11, 14 75
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Psuche 89
5. MIND IN BODY IN ARISTOTLE 91
6. PHAntASiA IN DE AniMA 106
7. THE HERMENEUTIC SLUMBER: ARISTOTLE’S REFLECTIONS ON SLEEP 128
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Philosophia Prote 145
8. FIRST PHILOSOPHY 147
9. FIRST PHILOSOPHY, TRUTH, AND THE HISTORY OF
BEING IN ARISTOTLE’S MEtAPHySiCS 173
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Ethos 189
10. ARISTOTLE ON HUMAN NATURE AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF
ETHICS, WITH AN ADDENDUM 191
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11. THE VISIBILITY OF GOODNESS 227
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12. to KAKon PoLLACHoS LEgEtAi: THE PLURIVOCITY OF
THE NOTION OF EVIL IN ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS 241
Polis 261
13. EDUCATION: THE ETHICO-POLITICAL EnErgEiA 263
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Poiesis 277
14. TOWARD THE SUBLIME CALCULUS OF ARISTOTLE’S PoEtiCS 279
Part II: Disseminations 295
15. ARISTOTLE ON THE NATURAL DWELLING OF INTELLECT 297
16. THE PERIPATETIC METHOD: WALKING WITH WOODBRIDGE,
THINKING WITH ARISTOTLE 311
17. WHAT REMAINS OF ARISTOTLE’S MEtAPHySiCS TODAY? 327
18. WOULD ARISTOTLE BE A COMMUNITARIAN? 338
Glossary of Aristotelian Terms 348
Chronology of Recent Research 384
Bibliography 392
Resources 404
Sources of Translated/Reprinted Essays 408
Index 409
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to the editors at Bloomsbury for offering me the opportunity to compose this
choral work and rethink the meaning of companionship in reading Aristotle: Sarah Campbell,
David Avital, Rachel Eisenhauer. It has been a unique privilege to provide the site for this
collection of outstanding contributions. Thanks also to Merilyn Holme for her logistical
assistance. A particular manifestation of gratitude goes to Erick R. Jiménez, whose advice
and availability have been decisive at many junctures. Finally, many thanks (grazie mille) to
Alessandra Indelicato, whose love of things Greek knows no measure, for her assistance in the
final stages of editing.
New York City
November 2012
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CORPUS ARISTOTELICUM

The Aristotelian Corpus is presented here in the standard order of the Bekker edition (Berlin,
1831–70). Texts deemed spurious are marked “**” while “*” indicates texts whose attribu-
tion is disputed. A list of abbreviations is available in the Bibliography section.
(1a1) Categories (Categoriae)
(16a1) on interpretation (De interpretatione)
(24a10) Prior Analytics (Analytica Priora)
(71a1) Posterior Analytics (Analytica Posteriora)
(100a18) topics (topica)
(164a20) Sophistical refutations (De Sophisticis Elenchis)
(184a10) Physics (Physica)
(268a1) on the Heavens (De Caelo)
(314a1) on generation and Corruption (De generatione et Corruptione)
(338a20) Meteorology (Meteorologica)
** (391a1) on the Cosmos (De Mundo)
(402a1) on the Soul (De Anima)
Parva Naturalia (“Little Physical Treatises”)
(436a1) on Sense and the Sensibles (De Sensu et Sensibilibus)
(449b1) on Memory and recollection (De Memoria et reminiscentia)
(453b11) on Sleep and Wakefulness (De Somno et Vigilia)
(458a33) on Dreams (De insomniis)
(462b12) on Divination in Sleep (De Divinatione per Somnum)
(464b19) on Length and Shortness of Life (De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae)
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(467b10) on youth and old Age, on Life and Death (De Juventute et Senectute, De
Vita et Morte)
(470b6) on respiration (De respiratione)
** (481a1) on Breath (De Spiritu)
(486a5) History of Animals (Historia Animalium)
(639a1) on Parts of Animals (De Partibus Animalium)
(698a1) on Motion of Animals (De Motu Animalium)
(704a4) on Locomotion of Animals (De incessu Animalium)
(715a1) on generation of Animals (De generatione Animalium)
** (791a1) on Colors (De Coloribus)
** (800a1) on things Heard (De audibilibus)
** (805a1) Physiognomonics (Physiognomonica)
** (815a10) on Plants (De Plantis)
** (830a5) on Marvellous things Heard (De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus)
** (847a11) Mechanics (Mechanica)
* (859a1) Problems (Problemata)
** (968a1) on indivisible Lines (De Lineis insecabilibus)
** (973a1) Situations and names of Winds (Ventorum Situs)
** (974a1) on Melissus, Xenophanes, and gorgias
(980a21) Metaphysics (Metaphysica)
(1094a1) nicomachean Ethics (Ethica nicomachea)
* (1181a24) great Ethics (Magna Moralia)
(1214a1) Eudemian Ethics (Ethica Eudemia)
** (1249a26) on Virtues and Vices (De Virtutibus et Vitiis)
(1252a1) Politics (Politica)
* (1343a1) Economics (oeconomica)
(1354a1) rhetoric (Ars rhetorica)
** (1420a5) rhetoric to Alexander (rhetorica ad Alexandrum)
(1447a8) Poetics (Ars Poetica)
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