Aristotle the Philosopher, J. L. Ackrill

 

Aristotle the Philosopher by J. L. Ackrill was on a reading list for a philosophy degree.

Started: 12/26/2022
Completed: 12/2/2023
Recommendation: Highly Recommended
Recommended By: A reading list for studying philosophy

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Review:

This is a short book, but it is heavily packed with quotations and analysis.  It took me a long time to read because I wanted to spend time with each concept and I wanted to work through the arguments being made.  Around the chapter on logic, the book became increasingly analysis and less quotations (though it was still dense with quotation).  By this time, however, the book was hitting Aristotelian concepts with which I was much more familiar and some of which I still remembered from reading Aristotle in translation.  At this point, the book went much quicker and was, for me, walking down a well marked path.