Topics Books I & VIII: With excerpts from related texts (Clarendon Aristotle) (Bks.1 & 8) PDF
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ARISTOTLE Topics Books I and VIII with excerpts from related texts Translated with a Commentary by ROBIN SMITH CLARENDON PRESS· OXFORD CLARENDON ARISTOTLE SERIES General Editors J. L. ACKRILL AND LINDSAY JUDSON Published in this series Categories and De Interpretatione 1. L. ACKRILL De Anima Books II and III D. w. HAMLYN New impression with supplementary material by Christopher Shields De Generatione et Corruptione c. 1. F. WILLIAMS De Partibus Animalium I and De Generatione Animalium I D. M. BALME New impression with supplementary material by Allan Gotthelf Eudemian Ethics Books I, II, and VIII MICHAEL WOODS Second edition Metaphysics Books r, L1, and E CHRISTOPHER KIRWAN Second edition Metaphysics Books Z and H DA VID BOSTOCK Metaphysics Books M and N JULIA ANNAS Physics Books I and II WILLIAM CHARLTON New impression with supplementary material Physics Books III and IV EDWARD HUSSEY New impression with supplementary material Politics Books I and II TREVOR 1. SAUNDERS Politics Books III and IV RICHARD ROBINSON New impression with supplementary material by David Keyt Posterior Analytics JONATHAN BARNES Second edition Other volumes are in preparation This book has been printed digitally and produced in a standard spedfication in order to ensure its continuing availability OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0X2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Sao Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Robin Smith 1997 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) Reprinted 2003 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover And you must impose this same condition on any acquirer ISBN 0-19-823942-4 To Carolyn PREFACE In 1968 G. E. L. Owen noted that the Topics was selected as the subject of the third Symposium Aristotelicum because it was 'a work rich in debatable material but relatively poor in commentar ies'. Since that time, scholarly debate about Aristotle's conception of dialectic and its relationship to his views on philosophical method has become if anything more intense. However, despite much excellent interpretative work, Brunschwig's Bude edition remains the only commentary in any modern language, and as of this writing even that is still limited to Books I-IV. A new English translation and commentary are very much needed. The present volume scarcely supplies that need, but I hope that it may serve as a stopgap in the interim. A number of scholars and scholarly audiences have endured my translations and interpretations of one passage or another and kindly ameliorated my errors; I am particularly grateful to Robert Bolton and Charles M. Young. The Editors of the Clarendon Aris totle Series, John Ackrill and Lindsay Judson, were a constant source of help and good advice. I am especially indebted to Profes sor Ackrill, who provided me with an endless stream of corrections and suggestions: whatever I may have got right in this book should probably be laid to his credit. Finally, I should like to acknowledge the support of a sabbatical leave from Kansas State University, during which much of the commentary was written. vii CONTENTS ABBREVIATED TITLES OF ARISTOTLE'S WORKS x INTRODUCTION Xl TRANSLA TION Book I 1 Book VIII 20 COMMENTARY Book I 41 Book VIII I04 EXCERPTS 165 NOTES ON THE TEXT 179 BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY 193 INDEX LOCORUM 197 GENERAL INDEX 202 IX ABBREVIA TED TITLES OF ARISTOTLE'S WORKS An. Post. Posterior Analytics An. Pro Prior Analytics Cat. Categories DeAn. On the Soul (De Anima) De Cael. On the Heavens (De Caelo) De Int. On Interpretation (De Interpretatione) EE Eudemian Ethics EN Nicomachean Ethics GA On the Generation of Animals GC On Coming-to-Be and Passing Away (De Gener atione et Corruptione) HA History of Animals Met. Metaphysics Mete. Meteorology PA On the Parts of Animals Phys. Physics Poet. Poetics Pol. Politics Rhet. Rhetoric SE On Sophistical Refutations (De Sophisticis Elenchis) x
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