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A MONUMENTAL WORK OF ARISTOTELIAN SCHOLARSHIP

A MONUMENTAL WORK OF ARISTOTELIAN SCHOLARSHIP The apparently restrictive title of Terence Irwin’s Aristotle’s First Principles’ belies the book’s enormous range and scope. The issues with which Irwin sets out to deal in fact go to the very heart of Aristotle’s entire philosophical enterprise; and in the process of dealing with them, he comments on a very large proportion of Aristotle’s writings, from the Organon through the Physics to the key books of the Metaphysics, the De Anima, the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics. The text is lucid and free from undue jargon; matters of detail and more technical issues are dealt with in voluminous notes, which themselves provide Irwin’s assessment of a large amount of the huge work done on Aristotle in the last half-century. The reviewer is likely to exhaust his set of synonyms for ‘large’ in trying to convey something of the impression the book creates. At 700 pages, it is a large book, dealing with an enormous topic, upon which a vast amount has been written, upon a good deal of which Irwin manages to comment in great detail. For all that, it is not in the least an overwhelming book. On the whole, Irwin controls his material admirably in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Heythrop Journal Wiley

A MONUMENTAL WORK OF ARISTOTELIAN SCHOLARSHIP

The Heythrop Journal , Volume 31 (1) – Jan 1, 1990

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0018-1196
eISSN
1468-2265
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-2265.1990.tb01152.x
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Abstract

The apparently restrictive title of Terence Irwin’s Aristotle’s First Principles’ belies the book’s enormous range and scope. The issues with which Irwin sets out to deal in fact go to the very heart of Aristotle’s entire philosophical enterprise; and in the process of dealing with them, he comments on a very large proportion of Aristotle’s writings, from the Organon through the Physics to the key books of the Metaphysics, the De Anima, the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics. The text is lucid and free from undue jargon; matters of detail and more technical issues are dealt with in voluminous notes, which themselves provide Irwin’s assessment of a large amount of the huge work done on Aristotle in the last half-century. The reviewer is likely to exhaust his set of synonyms for ‘large’ in trying to convey something of the impression the book creates. At 700 pages, it is a large book, dealing with an enormous topic, upon which a vast amount has been written, upon a good deal of which Irwin manages to comment in great detail. For all that, it is not in the least an overwhelming book. On the whole, Irwin controls his material admirably in

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Published: Jan 1, 1990

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