Coffee with Aristotle (Coffee with... S.) (Coffee With...Series)

by Jonathan Barnes

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Not many people can claim to have invented a new science, but the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle invented two - zoology and logic. More than two millennia after his death, we are still influenced by Aristotelian thought. When we use words such as "potential" and "actual", "theory" and "practice", we are speaking Aristotle's language. Here, over coffee, he talks with refreshing and illuminating simplicity about everything from causation and deduction to the role of women and the wonders of the natural world in a pre-scientific age. True, he thought a queen bee was actually a king, but about many other matters he was right on the button!
  • ISBN10 1844835723
  • ISBN13 9781844835720
  • Publish Date 10 April 2008 (first published 1 March 2008)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 February 2010
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Watkins Media
  • Imprint Duncan Baird Publishers
  • Pages 144
  • Language English