PHIL 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Great Game, Eudaimonia, First-Order Logic
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Aristotle wrote extensively, but only about one-fifth of his works have survived (although even that fills about 12 volumes, and touches on the whole range of what was available knowledge at his time). Aristotle himself divided his writings into the exoteric (intended for publication) and the. esoteric (compiled from his lecture notes, and intended for the narrower audience of his students and other philosophers familiar with the jargon and issues typical of the platonic and. Even some of his esoteric works may well have been altered or repaired after the original manuscripts were left to languish in a cellar in asia minor before being rediscovered by some. Roman scholars of dubious reputation in the 1st century b. c. (although this account of their history is disputed). What we today call aristotelian logic, aristotle himself would have labelled analytics, and he used the term logic to mean dialectics (the exchange of arguments and counter-arguments in search of a synthesis or resolution).
