Table Of ContentTHE MIDDLE INCLUDED
SERIES EDITOR
John Russon
The Middle Included
Logos in Aristotle
Ömer Aygün
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Names: Aygün, Ömer, 1975–
Title: The middle included : logos in Aristotle / Ömer Aygün.
Other titles: Rereading ancient philosophy.
Description: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016. | Series: Rereading ancient philosophy | Based on the
author’s dissertation (Pennsylvania State University, 2007)
Identifiers: LCCN 2016034273 | ISBN 9780810134003 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780810134010 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Aristotle. | Logos (Philosophy)
Classification: LCC B491.L64 A94 2016 | DDC 185—dc23
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction: The Question and the Method
Chapter 1: Being (Logos in the Categories)
1. Homonymy
2. Synonymy
3. Recapitulation and Reorientation
Chapter 2: Potentiality (Logos in On Interpretation)
1. The Inherence of Logos
2. Potentiality
3. Recapitulation and Reorientation
Chapter 3: Natural Motion (Logos in the Physics)
1. The Natural
2. The Organic
3. Recapitulation and Reorientation
Chapter 4: Animal Motion (Logos in On the Soul)
1. Sensation
2. Locomotion
3. Recapitulation and Reorientation
Chapter 5: Action (Logos in the Nicomachean Ethics)
1. Habit
2. Positive State
3. Character
4. Recapitulation and Reorientation
Chapter 6: Speech (Logos in the Politics)
1. Animal Communication
2. Human Speech: From “Letters” to “Words”
3. Human Speech: From “Words” to “Sentences”
4. Logoi: Definition, Account, and Law
Conclusion
1. Overview
2. The Human Condition: The Cycloptic and the Oedipal
3. Nous
Notes
Bibliography
General Index
Index Locorum
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank the Department of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, which provided me
an educational and therefore philosophical environment between 2001 and 2005, the Fulbright Foundation
which granted me optimum work conditions for research in 2005–6, and the Projects of Scientific
Research at Galatasaray University which enabled me to turn my dissertation into this book.
I am deeply grateful to Robert D. Metcalf and Eli Diamond for their detailed notes and fair criticisms
concerning the text in its manuscript form; to the members of the committee of my dissertation on which
this book is based, Daniel Conway, Veronique Fóti, Christopher P. Long, and Mark Munn, for their
suggestions and encouragement after reading the earliest version of this book; and also to Rémi Brague,
Pierre Pellegrin, Jean-Louis Labarrière, and Annick Jaulin for their insightful remarks during my
presentations of parts of it. I am also very much indebted to my friends, Katherine Loewy, Eric Sanday,
Hakan Yücefer, Sean D. Kirkland, David Bronstein, Gregory Recco, William Harwood, Refik Güremen,
Ali Çakır, and Michael Schleeter, for their companionship and challenges.
I cannot express enough my indebtedness to John Russon who directed my dissertation with immense
philosophical motivation and genuine friendship, and honored my work by including it in its present form
in the series “Rereading Ancient Philosophy” at Northwestern University Press. I am also grateful to
Maggie Grossman, Henry Lowell Carrigan, Anne E. Gendler, and Nathan MacBrien at the Northwestern
University Press for their help during the editorial preparation of the book in its published form.
Finally, I am most indebted to my wife, Ayşenur Nuhoğlu, for the constant support and diligent criticism
she brought to these pages. Indeed, none of the above is to be held responsible for any shortcomings in the
following, but the rest of it could not be written without them.
ABBREVIATIONS
Works by Aristotle (for complete bibliographic information, see pages 249–52)
APo. Posterior Analytics
APr. Prior Analytics
Cael. De Caelo, On the Heavens
Cat. Categories
DA De Anima, On the Soul
De sensu On Sense and Sensible Objects
EE Eudemian Ethics
GA Generation of Animals
GC On Generation and Corruption
HA History of Animals
MA On the Movement of Animals
Metaph. Metaphysics
Mete. Meteorology
NE Nicomachean Ethics
On Int. On Interpretation
PA Parts of Animals
Ph. Physics
Po. Poetics
Pol. Politics
Prob. Problems
Protrep. Protrepticus
Rh. Rhetoric
SE Sophistici Elenchi, Sophistical Refutations
Top. Topics
Secondary Works
DK Diels and Kranz, 1956
