
On Sophistical Refutations
Author: Aristotle
Narrator: George Easton
Unabridged: 2 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Interactive Media
Published: 04/16/2023
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Author: Aristotle
Narrator: George Easton
Unabridged: 2 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Interactive Media
Published: 04/16/2023
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy
Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.
Yes, I thought this book by Aristotle was great, really. Whereas the 'Topics' and 'Posterior Analytics' felt more like the pot pourri of Prior Analytics, the sophistical elenchii analyses the 'dialectical syllogism' or 'paralogism'. These paralogisms could include various sorts of different proposit......more
This book has given rise to millennia of clear thinking and to millennia of confusion. Some scholars hold that Aristotle's writings were not as much books as teaching notes. We cut him slack for being the inventor of the modern idea of logic and really, the first scientist. This does not mean that h......more