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Aristotle on the Nature of Analogy
This book reconsiders the Aristotelian analogy. Focusing primarily on Aristotle's Physics Alpha, a structure of analogy emerges within Aristotle's discussion of the principles of "becoming." Eric Schumacher argues that logos, the first of these principles, is rooted in analogy and entails a type of mobility fit to reflect the be-coming of nature.
Book Details
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Publish Date: Oct 15th, 2018
- Pages: 140
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.30in - 0.60in - 0.95lb
- EAN: 9780739198704
- Categories: • Movements - Structuralism• History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical• Logic
About the Author
Eric Schumacher is associate professor of philosophy at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.
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Praise for this book
Eric Schumacher here offers an ambitious and original interpretation of the concept of analogy in Aristotle's Physics. In his reading, analogy becomes intimately linked to the movements of nature, insofar as it is capable of making visible not only the formal and quantitative characteristics of natural beings, but also their privations and "silent features."
Delving into Aristotle's Physics, Eric Schumacher shows that analogy, far from a matter of proportion or semantic kinship, lies at (or as) the root of logos. For logos never unfolds alone, but always alongside that which it addresses, always together with the silence of beings in their becoming. Besides allowing for novel approaches to the arduous relation of logos and nous, this stunning book radically reconfigures the meaning of logos, illuminating its rigor and creativity, precision and dynamism, privation and many-way-ness.
The problem of analogy is one of the most difficult and important topics in philosophy. Eric Schumacher here offers the most comprehensive and cogent treatment of the Aristotelian sense of analogy that has been available to date. He clearly and concisely articulates and distinguishes the two senses of analogy that are traditionally attributed to Aristotle, focal meaning (analogy of attribution) and proportionality. He then unfolds an original and decisive argument that there is in Aristotle a third sense of analogy, connected with privation (steresis) and a-logos that brings these two senses of analogy together into an overall coherent account. Schumacher has a profound appreciation of the importance of the problem of analogy in Medieval and contemporary accounts of logic, language and being.
The book is an eminently readable analysis of Aristotelian analogy. Dr. Schumacher's characterization is lucid and insightful, and will prove invaluable to scholars working in both the continental and analytic traditions.