ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ARISTOTLE Volume 2 ARISTOTLE: NEW LIGHT ON HIS LIFE AND ON SOME OF HIS LOST WORKS VOLUME 2 ARISTOTLE: NEW LIGHT ON HIS LIFE AND ON SOME OF HIS LOST WORKS VOLUME 2 Observations on some of Aristotle’s lost works ANTON-HERMANN CHROUST First published in 1973 This edition first published in 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 1973 Anton-Hermann Chroust All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-138-92762-9 (Set) ISBN: 978-1-315-67490-2 (Set) (ebk) ISBN: 978-1-138-93707-9 (Volume 2) (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315- 67493-3 (Volume 2) (ebk) Publisher’s Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent. Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace. ARISTOTLE New light on his life and on some of his lost works Volume II Observations on some of Aristotle’s lost works Anton-Hermann Chroust First published in 1973 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd Broadway House, 68–74 Carter Lane , London EC4V 5EL Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Copyright Anton- Hermann Chroust 1973 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism ISBN 0 7100 7722 x To the Memory of Roscoe Pound Teacher, Friend, Scholar Contents Volume II Observations on some of Aristotle’s lost works Abbreviations Introduction I The Probable Dates of Some of Aristotle’s Lost Works II A Note on Some of the ‘Minor Lost Works’ of Aristotle III Aristotle’s First Literary Effort: The Gryllus —A Work on the Nature of Rhetoric IV Eudemus or On the Soul : An Aristotelian Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul V The Psychology in Aristotle’s Eudemus or On the Soul VI Aristotle’s On Justice VII A Brief Account of the Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Protrepticus VIII An Emendation to Fragment 13 (Walzer, Ross) of Aristotle’s Protrepticus IX What Prompted Aristotle to Address the Protrepticus to Themison of Cyprus? X The Term ‘Philosopher’ and the Panegyric Analogy in Aristotle’s Protrepticus XI Aristotle’s Politicus XII The Probable Date of Aristotle’s On Philosophy XIII A Cosmological (Teleological) Proof for the Existence of God in Aristotle’s On Philosophy XIV The Concept of God in Aristotle’s On Philosophy (Cicero, De Natura Deorum I. 13. 33) XV The Doctrine of the Soul in Aristotle’s On Philosophy XVI Aristotle’s On Philosophy and the ‘Philosophies of the East’ XVII Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s ‘Philosopher King’: Some Comments on Aristotle’s On Kingship Conclusion Postscript Werner Jaeger and the Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Lost Works Notes Index of Ancient Authors Index of Modern Authors Abbreviations Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers DL Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I. Epistola ad Ammaeum DH Vita Aristotelis Hesychii (Vita Menagiana, Vita Menagii ) VH Vita Aristotelis Marciana VM Vita Aristotelis Vulgata (Vita Pseudo-Ammoniana, Vita Pseudo-Elias ) VV Vita Aristotelis Latina VL I Vita Aristotelis Syriaca (author unknown), Cod. Berol. Sachau 226 IVS II Vita Aristotelis Syriaca (author unknown), Cod. Vat. Syriacus 158 II VS I Vita Aristotelis Arabica (Ibn Abi Yaqub an-Nadim, Kitab al-Fihrist ) IVA
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