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CRITICAL STUDY: WAS ARISTOTLE COMMITTED TO A CARDINAL TENET OF REFORMATIONAL PHILOSOPHY?

CRITICAL STUDY: WAS ARISTOTLE COMMITTED TO A CARDINAL TENET OF REFORMATIONAL PHILOSOPHY? CRITICAL STUDY WAS ARISTOTLE COMMITTED TO A CARDINAL TENET OF REFORMATIONAL PImOSOPHY? A. P. Bos, Cosmic and Meta-Cosmic Tbeology in Aristotle's Lost Dialogues (Leiden, Brill, 1989) xx, 242pp. The best way to describe this book is that it is a tour de force. The somewhat enigmatic title masks the fact that this volume offers not only a new interpretation of the lost Dialogues of Aristotle, but a new perspective on Aristotle as a whole. In a bold and imaginative new synthesis, Bos challenges the entire body of contemporary Aristotle scholarship, and backs up his assertions with an impressive array of arguments, ranging from detailed philological and doxographical discussions to daring hypotheses of an overall historical and philosophical kind. The scope of the book fairly takes one's breath away. Bos's main overall point is that there is no significant philosophical opposition between the so-called Corpus, the body of Aristotle's writings which has survived from antiquity, and his Dialogues, which have largely perished. By means of a fresh synthesis of the fragmentary evidence in other ancient authors with respect to the Dialogues, Bos reconstructs a coherent philosophical conception which, he argues, differs only in manner of presentation (chiefly the use http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Philosophia Reformata Brill

CRITICAL STUDY: WAS ARISTOTLE COMMITTED TO A CARDINAL TENET OF REFORMATIONAL PHILOSOPHY?

WOLTERS, A. M.
Philosophia Reformata , Volume 55 (2): 198 – Feb 20, 1990
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© Copyright 1990 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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CRITICAL STUDY WAS ARISTOTLE COMMITTED TO A CARDINAL TENET OF REFORMATIONAL PImOSOPHY? A. P. Bos, Cosmic and Meta-Cosmic Tbeology in Aristotle's Lost Dialogues (Leiden, Brill, 1989) xx, 242pp. The best way to describe this book is that it is a tour de force. The somewhat enigmatic title masks the fact that this volume offers not only a new interpretation of the lost Dialogues of Aristotle, but a new perspective on Aristotle as a whole. In a bold and imaginative new synthesis, Bos challenges the entire body of contemporary Aristotle scholarship, and backs up his assertions with an impressive array of arguments, ranging from detailed philological and doxographical discussions to daring hypotheses of an overall historical and philosophical kind. The scope of the book fairly takes one's breath away. Bos's main overall point is that there is no significant philosophical opposition between the so-called Corpus, the body of Aristotle's writings which has survived from antiquity, and his Dialogues, which have largely perished. By means of a fresh synthesis of the fragmentary evidence in other ancient authors with respect to the Dialogues, Bos reconstructs a coherent philosophical conception which, he argues, differs only in manner of presentation (chiefly the use

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Published: Feb 20, 1990

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