This paper is an attempt to illuminate today’s economic science with the light of Aristotle’s philosophy of economics. The author first describes Aristotle’s thoughts about the economy. Then, he distinguishes and discusses ...

Aristotle presents two different approaches to riddle in the Poetics and in the Rhetoric. In this paper, I offer a new argument showing that, despite meaningful differences, these two views on riddle are not contradictory, ...

Regardless of the historical evolution of money, some passages of Aristotle's works shed light on its meaning and nature. This paper will attentively consider these passages. The first section presents Aristotle's thoughts ...

This paper explores how Aristotle rejects some Eleatic tenets in general and some of Zeno’s views in particular that apparently threaten the Aristotelian “science of nature.” According to Zeno, it is impossible for a thing ...

The present dissertation provides a reconstruction of the categorical part of Aristotle s (384 BC 322 BC) syllogistic, from the standpoint of the theory given in Prior Analytics, a piece of the Organon. Throughout the ...

The question of the Aristotelianism of Aquinas has no better theatre of debate than Aquinas' discussions of creation. Perhaps on no other issue can one find so much controversy involving the «pure» Aristotle, the «pure» ...

This paper challenges a widespread reading of Aristotle's use of dialectic in the treatment of aporiai. According to this reading, the search for a resolution of an aporia is supposed to proceed by arguing against conflicting ...

Riesbeck does not claim that his account of the political in Aristotle delivers a demonstrative blow that no one can resist should they happen to have the wit to understand. In fact, Riesbeck's aims look far less unpretentious. ...