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Jacob Aristotle Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
Aristoteles behoort tot de grootste filosofen aller tijden, wiens werken de westerse filosofie eeuwenlang hebben gevormd. Zijn onderzoek bestreek een breed scala aan onderwerpen, van logica en metafysica tot ethiek, politiek en esthetiek. Zijn nadruk op observatie en empirisch onderzoek, met name in de biologie, was baanbrekend. Aristoteles' filosofie is complex en blijft tot op heden discussie oproepen, wat zijn blijvende invloed op de intellectuele geschiedenis bewijst.
Aristotle XI. History of Animals. Books VII-X
Edited and Translated by D.M. Balme
Ethica Nicomachea
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Inleiding tot en geannoteerde vertaling van het wijsgerig-ethische overzichtswerk van Griekse filosoof (384-322 v.Chr.).
Presents the author's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are the material. In this book, the author argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms.