

Rhetoric, Poetics, and Logic
Author: Aristotle
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 15 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/05/2011
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy
Author: Aristotle
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 15 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/05/2011
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.
This was hard to get through; Aristotle is unquestionably a genius, and I am unquestionably not. So I have to go really broad - and just talk about what I was able to take away. The modalities of communication are complex, and those who understand this are able to more cogently get their point(s) ac......more
Rethoric made it worth it, logic should not be consumed in audiobook form. Poetics has little modern use.......more
Aristotle is a based logician :) I find the way he dissects Posterior Analytics quite inspiring. He goes fairly deeply into the distinction between scientific demonstration and reasoning about universals (and apparently one needs to look in Metaphysics for discussions of the basic principles, as sci......more
There are definitely some good morsels and grains in here but man is it a dry read. What Aristotle did in the time period in which he did it is pretty remarkable and he served to be a foundational point for logic and philosophical thought to build off of but these works must be taken with a grain of......more