CAS PH 155 Lecture Notes - Nicomachean Ethics, Posterior Analytics, The Happy Life
21 Apr 2014
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Prof. ogilvie"s introduction: these excerpts from the posterior analytics, a work on logic, and the nichomachean ethics, a work of moral philosophy, are among the most difficult readings from this entire semester. Read them slowly, and don"t be too upset if you have a hard time making sense of them. Remember, your main task is to try to figure out how aristotle thinks that is, how he defines his terms, and what kind of arguments make sense to him. Note: aristotle"s works are divided up into books and chapters. These divisions are indicated at the beginning of each section: for instance, 1. 8 means book 1, chapter 8. All instruction given or received by way of argument proceeds from pre-existent knowledge. This becomes evident upon a survey of all the species of such instruction. Again, the persuasion exerted by rhetorical arguments is in principle the same, since they use either example, a kind of induction, or enthymeme, a form of syllogism.
