Aristotles Voice

Author : Jasper Neel
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809332817
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Voice written by Jasper Neel and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Jasper Neel’s sure-to-be-controversial resituating of Aristotle centers around three questions that have been constants in his twenty-two years of teaching experience: What does itmean to teach writing? What should one know before teaching writing? And, if there is such a thing as "research in the teaching of writing," what is it? Believing that all composition teachers are situated politically and socially, both as part of the institution in which they teach and as beings with lived histories, Neel examines his own life and the life of composition studies as a discipline in the context of Aristotle. Neel first situates the Rhetoric as a political document; he then situates the Rhetoric in the Aristotelian system and describes how professional discourse came to know itself through Aristotle’s way of studying the world; finally, he examines the operation of the Rhetoric inside itself before arguing the need to turn to Aristotle’s notion of sophistry as a way of negating his system. By pointing out the connections among Aristotelian rhetoric, the contemporary university, and the contemporary writing teacher, Neel shows that Aristotle’s frightening social theories are as alive today as are Aristotelian notions of discourse. Neel explains that by their very nature teachers must speak with a professional voice. It is through showing how to "hear" one’s professional voice that Neel explores the notion of professional discourse that originates with Aristotle. In maintaining that one must pay a high price in order to speak through Aristotle’s theory or to assume the role of "professional," he argues that no neutral ground exists either for pedagogy or for the analysis of pedagogy. Neel concludes this discussion by proposing that Aristotelian sophistry is both an antidote to Aristotelian racism, sexism, and bigotry and a way of allowing Aristotelian categories of discourse to remain useful. Finally, as an Aristotelian, a teacher, and a writer, Neel responds both to Aristotle and to professionalism by rethinking the influence of the past and reviving the voice of Aristotelian sophistry.

Author : Christopher P. Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139492098
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle on the Nature of Truth written by Christopher P. Long and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects. Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that articulates the meaning of truth as a co-operative activity between human beings and the natural world that is rooted in our endeavours to do justice to the nature of things. By following a path of Aristotle's thinking that leads from our rudimentary encounters with things in perceiving through human communication to thinking, this book traces an itinerary that uncovers the nature of truth as ecological justice, and it finds the nature of justice in our attempts to articulate the truth of things.

Author : Clifford A. Bates, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807152390
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's "Best Regime" written by Clifford A. Bates, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the Soviet Union and other Marxist regimes around the world seems to have left liberal democracy as the only surviving ideology, and yet many scholars of political thought still find liberal democracy objectionable, using Aristotle's Politics to support their views. In this detailed analysis of Book 3 of Aristotle's work, Clifford Angell Bates, Jr., challenges these scholars, demonstrating that Aristotle was actually a defender of democracy. Proving the relevance of classical political philosophy to modern democratic problems, Bates argues that Aristotle not only defends popular rule but suggests that democracy, restrained by the rule of law, is the best form of government. According to Aristotle, because human beings are naturally sociable, democracy is the regime that best helps man reach his potential; and because of human nature, it is inevitable democracies will prevail. Bates explains why Aristotle's is a sound position between two extremes -- participatory democracy, which romanticizes the people, and elite theory, which underrates them. Aristotle, he shows, sees the people as they really are and nevertheless believes their self-rule, under law, is ultimately better than all competing forms. However, the philosopher does not believe democracy should be imposed universally. It must arise out of the given cultural, environmental, and historical traditions of a people or its will fall into tyranny. Bates's fresh interpretation rests on innovative approaches to reading Book 3 -- which he deems vital to understanding all of Aristotle's Politics. Examining the work in the original Greek as well as in translation, he addresses questions about the historical Aristotle versus the posited Aristotle, the genre and structure of the text, and both the theoretical and the dialogic nature of the work. Carting Aristotle's rhetorical strategies, Bates shows that Book 3 is not simply a treatise but a series of dialogues that develop a nuanced defense of democratic rule. Bates's accessible and faithful exposition of Aristotle's work confirms that the philosopher's teachings are not merely of historical interest but speak directly to liberal democracy's current crisis of self-understanding.

Author : Alan G. Gross
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809328475
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric written by Alan G. Gross and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection edited by Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer, scholars in communication, rhetoric and composition, and philosophy seek to “reread” Aristotle’s Rhetoric from a purely rhetorical perspective. So important do these contributors find the Rhetoric, in fact, that a core tenet in this book is that “all subsequent rhetorical theory is but a series of responses to issues raised by the central work.” The essays reflect on questions basic to rhetoric as a humanistic discipline. Some explore the ways in which the Rhetoric explicates the nature of the art of rhetoric, noting that on this issue, the tensions within the Rhetoric often provide a direct passageway into our own conflicts.

Author : Aristotle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Psychology written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yoav Meyrav
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350127256
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Themistius: On Aristotle Metaphysics 12 written by Yoav Meyrav and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only commentary on Aristotle's theological work, Metaphysics, Book 12, to survive from the first six centuries CE – the heyday of ancient Greek commentary on Aristotle. Though the Greek text itself is lost, a full English translation is presented here for the first time, based on Arabic versions of the Greek and a Hebrew version of the Arabic. In his commentary Themistius offers an extensive re-working of Aristotle, confirming that the first principle of the universe is indeed Aristotle's God as intellect, not the intelligibles thought by God. The identity of intellect with intelligibles had been omitted by Aristotle in Metaphysics 12, but is suggested in his Physics 3.3 and On the Soul 3, and later by Plotinus. Laid out here in an accessible translation and accompanied by extensive commentary notes, introduction and indexes, the work will be of interest for students and scholars of Neoplatonist philosophy, ancient metaphysics, and textual transmission.

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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809334135
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Arabic Treatises on Aristotle’s Rhetoric written by and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well documented that western rhetoric's journey from pagan Athens to the medieval academies of Christian Europe was significantly influenced by the intellectual thought of the Muslim Near East. Lahcen Elyazghi Ezzaher contributes to the contemporary chronicling of this influence in Three Arabic Treatises on Aristotle's Rhetoric, offering translations of three landmark medieval Arabic commentaries on Aristotle's rhetorical treatise.

Author : Aristotle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's History of Animals written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Isaac Beare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Theories of Elementary Cognition from Alcmaeon to Aristotle written by John Isaac Beare and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aristotle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book Aristotle's Works: Containing The Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Childbearing Women. With Various Useful Remedies written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: