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THE MIDDLE INCLUDED SERIES EDITOR John Russon The Middle Included Logos in Aristotle Ömer Aygün NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS • EVANSTON, ILLINOIS Northwestern University Press www.nupress.northwestern.edu Copyright © 2017 by Northwestern University Press. Published 2017. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Aygün, Ömer, 1975– Title: The middle included : logos in Aristotle / Ömer Aygün. Other titles: Rereading ancient philosophy. Description: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016. | Series: Rereading ancient philosophy | Based on the author’s dissertation (Pennsylvania State University, 2007) Identifiers: LCCN 2016034273 | ISBN 9780810134003 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780810134010 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780810134027 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Aristotle. | Logos (Philosophy) Classification: LCC B491.L64 A94 2016 | DDC 185—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016034273 A note to the reader: This e-book has been produced to offer maximum consistency across all supported e-readers. However, e-reading technologies vary, and text display can also change dramatically depending on user choices. Therefore, you occasionally may encounter small discrepancies from the print edition, especially with respect to indents, fonts, symbols, and line breaks. Furthermore, some features of the print edition, such as photographs, may be missing due to permissions restrictions. Canım annemle babam Güzin ve Birol Aygün’e CONTENTS Acknowledgments Abbreviations Preface Introduction: The Question and the Method Chapter 1: Being (Logos in the Categories) 1. Homonymy 2. Synonymy 3. Recapitulation and Reorientation Chapter 2: Potentiality (Logos in On Interpretation) 1. The Inherence of Logos 2. Potentiality 3. Recapitulation and Reorientation Chapter 3: Natural Motion (Logos in the Physics) 1. The Natural 2. The Organic 3. Recapitulation and Reorientation Chapter 4: Animal Motion (Logos in On the Soul) 1. Sensation 2. Locomotion 3. Recapitulation and Reorientation Chapter 5: Action (Logos in the Nicomachean Ethics) 1. Habit 2. Positive State 3. Character 4. Recapitulation and Reorientation Chapter 6: Speech (Logos in the Politics) 1. Animal Communication 2. Human Speech: From “Letters” to “Words” 3. Human Speech: From “Words” to “Sentences” 4. Logoi: Definition, Account, and Law Conclusion 1. Overview 2. The Human Condition: The Cycloptic and the Oedipal 3. Nous Notes Bibliography General Index Index Locorum ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank the Department of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, which provided me an educational and therefore philosophical environment between 2001 and 2005, the Fulbright Foundation which granted me optimum work conditions for research in 2005–6, and the Projects of Scientific Research at Galatasaray University which enabled me to turn my dissertation into this book. I am deeply grateful to Robert D. Metcalf and Eli Diamond for their detailed notes and fair criticisms concerning the text in its manuscript form; to the members of the committee of my dissertation on which this book is based, Daniel Conway, Veronique Fóti, Christopher P. Long, and Mark Munn, for their suggestions and encouragement after reading the earliest version of this book; and also to Rémi Brague, Pierre Pellegrin, Jean-Louis Labarrière, and Annick Jaulin for their insightful remarks during my presentations of parts of it. I am also very much indebted to my friends, Katherine Loewy, Eric Sanday, Hakan Yücefer, Sean D. Kirkland, David Bronstein, Gregory Recco, William Harwood, Refik Güremen, Ali Çakır, and Michael Schleeter, for their companionship and challenges. I cannot express enough my indebtedness to John Russon who directed my dissertation with immense philosophical motivation and genuine friendship, and honored my work by including it in its present form in the series “Rereading Ancient Philosophy” at Northwestern University Press. I am also grateful to Maggie Grossman, Henry Lowell Carrigan, Anne E. Gendler, and Nathan MacBrien at the Northwestern University Press for their help during the editorial preparation of the book in its published form. Finally, I am most indebted to my wife, Ayşenur Nuhoğlu, for the constant support and diligent criticism she brought to these pages. Indeed, none of the above is to be held responsible for any shortcomings in the following, but the rest of it could not be written without them. ABBREVIATIONS Works by Aristotle (for complete bibliographic information, see pages 249–52) APo. Posterior Analytics APr. Prior Analytics Cael. De Caelo, On the Heavens Cat. Categories DA De Anima, On the Soul De sensu On Sense and Sensible Objects EE Eudemian Ethics GA Generation of Animals GC On Generation and Corruption HA History of Animals MA On the Movement of Animals Metaph. Metaphysics Mete. Meteorology NE Nicomachean Ethics On Int. On Interpretation PA Parts of Animals Ph. Physics Po. Poetics Pol. Politics Prob. Problems Protrep. Protrepticus Rh. Rhetoric SE Sophistici Elenchi, Sophistical Refutations Top. Topics Secondary Works DK Diels and Kranz, 1956
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