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On Aristotle
Alan Ryan
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Description for On Aristotle
Hardcover. An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Aristotle. Series: Liveright Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 126 x 184 x 20. Weight in Grams: 274.
In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle was born in Stagira, Macedon, in 384 BCE. He would go on to join Plato's Academy and eventually become tutor to Alexander the Great. During his lifetime he would see the revival of Athens following its destruction in the Peloponnesian War, before the ultimate extinction of its radical form of democracy after ... Read more
In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle was born in Stagira, Macedon, in 384 BCE. He would go on to join Plato's Academy and eventually become tutor to Alexander the Great. During his lifetime he would see the revival of Athens following its destruction in the Peloponnesian War, before the ultimate extinction of its radical form of democracy after ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Liveright Classics
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780871407061
SKU
V9780871407061
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About Alan Ryan
Alan Ryan, after decades at Princeton University, was warden of New College, University of Oxford, where he was a professor of political theory. He is the author of John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism and Bertrand Russell: A Political Life, among other works.
Reviews for On Aristotle
"A compact and accessible introduction to Aristotle, whose thought, together with that of his teacher Plato, constitutes the bedrock of much of Western civilization…. Ryan’s erudite and engaging introduction is followed by substantial extracts from Aristotle’s political works, making this text ideal for classroom use."
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