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  • 6 - Definition in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics

  • Edited by James G. Lennox, University of Pittsburgh, Robert Bolton, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle
    Published online:
    06 December 2010
    Print publication:
    18 November 2010, pp 122-146

  • Summary

    Two of them contributed more than the others to the shaping of a new conception of the Posterior Analytics, which, according to the author, is still alive and active, namely the papers by Jonathan Barnes and Jacques Brunschwig. Aristotle first developed his doctrine on demonstration in the Posterior Analytics before he built up a 'general syllogistic' in the Prior Analytics. Barnes considers two of the requirements for the premises that make, in Aristotle's view, a demonstration scientific: immediacy and universality. These requirements seem to be taken from the developments in syllogistic in the Prior Analytics, but Barnes shows that even in the case of universality, apodeictic can fly with its own wings, without any help from syllogistic. The paper by Brunschwig shares with that by Barnes the same chronological perspective, but Brunschwig insists much more on the gaps that are internal to the Posterior Analytics.