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Aristotle's Empiricism
Jean Groot
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Description for Aristotle's Empiricism
Paperback. Num Pages: 468 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: HPCA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 788.
In Aristotle’s Empiricism, Jean De Groot argues that an important part of Aristotle’s natural philosophy has remained largely unexplored. She shows that much of Aristotle’s analysis of natural movement is influenced by mathematical mechanics that emerged from late Pythagorean thought. De Groot draws upon the pseudo-Aristotelian Physical Problems XVI to reconstruct the context of mechanics of Aristotle’s time and to trace the development of kinematic thinking from Archytas to the Aristotelian Mechanics. She argues that the influence of kinematics on Aristotle pinpoints the original meaning of his concept of power, or potentiality, as a physicalistic meaning addressed to the problem ... Read more
In Aristotle’s Empiricism, Jean De Groot argues that an important part of Aristotle’s natural philosophy has remained largely unexplored. She shows that much of Aristotle’s analysis of natural movement is influenced by mathematical mechanics that emerged from late Pythagorean thought. De Groot draws upon the pseudo-Aristotelian Physical Problems XVI to reconstruct the context of mechanics of Aristotle’s time and to trace the development of kinematic thinking from Archytas to the Aristotelian Mechanics. She argues that the influence of kinematics on Aristotle pinpoints the original meaning of his concept of power, or potentiality, as a physicalistic meaning addressed to the problem ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Parmenides Publishing United States
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
Number of Pages
468
Place of Publication
Las Vegas, United States
ISBN
9781930972834
SKU
V9781930972834
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About Jean Groot
Jean De Groot is a professor in the school of philosophy at The Catholic University of America, USA. She received her Ph.D. in History of Science at Harvard University, where she studied the history of early mechanics and wrote her dissertation on ancient optics. She went on to study Neo-Platonism at the University of Paris, attending the seminar of Pierre ... Read more
Reviews for Aristotle's Empiricism
This book presents an ‘other’ or alternative Aristotle to the caricature and straw man set up through the mistaken Baconian capitulation to Democratean ‘sense data’, a non-empirical ideology that distorts rather than enhances our radical, unavoidable, pre-philosophic experience of power and necessity. This is a revolutionary book that transforms our view of Aristotle and specifically our evaluation of his natural ... Read more