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The apparently restrictive title of Terence Irwinâs Aristotleâs First Principlesâ belies the bookâs enormous range and scope. The issues with which Irwin sets out to deal in fact go to the very heart of Aristotleâs entire philosophical enterprise; and in the process of dealing with them, he comments on a very large proportion of Aristotleâs 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 Irwinâs 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 âlargeâ 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
The Heythrop Journal – Wiley
Published: Jan 1, 1990
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