Aristotle: His Life and School
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Aristotle: His Life and School
By (Author) Carlo Natali
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
29th November 2022
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
Ancient history
European history
185
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
Description
This definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he founded. First published in Italian, and now translated, updated, and expanded for English readers, this concise chronological narrative is the most authoritative account of Aristotle's life and his Lyceum
Reviews
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2014"
"Gathering, distilling, and analyzing all the evidence and previous scholarship, Carlo Natali, one of the world's leading Aristotle scholars, provides a masterful synthesis that is accessible to students yet filled with evidence and original interpretations that specialists will find informative and provocative." * World Book Industry *
"Natali assembles all of the relevant ancient sources for the life of Aristotle and offers judicious assessments of their reliability and significance. The result, when it comes to the life of Aristotle, is that Natali's work is now the standard biography. . . . This book both satisfies the highest standards of scholarship and is accessible to any intelligent readers. Every college and university library should have it." * Choice *
"Having read this book, I now have a much better grasp of the issues involved in ancient biography as it applies to Aristotle and other Peripatetics, and of what we know and we do not know (and knowing what we do not know is a kind of knowledge."---Robert Mayhew, Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science
Author Bio
Carlo Natali is professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Venice. His books include The Wisdom of Aristotle and an Italian translation, with revised Greek text, of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. D. S. Hutchinson is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Virtues of Aristotle and the associate editor of Plato: Complete Works.
