| Author: | Daniel W. Graham |
| Origin: | UK |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press - Clarendon Press |
| ISBN: | 978198243151 |
| Edition number: | 1st edition |
| First edition: | 1990 |
| Single price: | 1987 |
| Dimensions: | 14x21.6 |
| Pages: | 384 |
| Location: | 36Γ |
Each of the two major approaches to Aristotle--the unitarian, which understands his work as forming a single, unified system, and the developmentalist, which seeks a sequence of developing ideas--has inherent limitations. This book proposes a synthetic view of Aristotle that sees development as a change between systematic theories. Setting theories of the so-called logical works beside theories of the physical and metaphysical treatises, Graham shows that Aristotle's doctrines fall into two distinct systems of philosophies that are genetically related.