Commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (Aristotelian Commentary Series) [Paperback]

Thomas Aquinas (Author), Richard Berquist (Translator), Ralph McInerny (Preface)

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• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: St. Augustines Dumb Ox Books (January 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883357780
• ISBN-13: 978-1883357788
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Logic, March 10, 2008

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This commentary is outstanding as an exposition of logic's theory of scientific knowledge. Aristotle's Posterior Analytics belongs to the division of logic that is the material logic of the theory of arguments. Where as Aristotle's Topics exposits dialectial(probable) syllogisms and probable arguments which lead to scientific proofs but are not scientific proofs, in this Aristotelian work there is an exposition of the theory of scientific proofs, both demonstration and induction. These latter are the two means by which science is acquired. Aristotle's Posterior Analytics and Aquinas' commentary provide a unified theory of scientific knowledge by examing the material order of arguments, the necessity and evidence versus contingency of their premises which modern logic does not do. This exposes omissions in modern logic that need to be filled by Aristotelian and Scholastic logic in order to develop a unified science of logic. By means of this logical theory of scientific knowledge, Aristotle and Thomas have enabled all scientists from math, mathematical natural science, and philosophy, to theology to exposit their subjects scientifically without violating the subject of each species of knowledge. Thereby this work liberates scientists from the false restrictions of empiricism or rationalism by means of a general theory of scientific knowledge that applies to all species of knowledge which are rightly called sciences. By means of this work Aquinas can scientifically explain how both math, mathematical phyics, and sacred theology are all sciences without violating the specific integrity of any of them at all. Simply be a mathematician in math, a mathematical physicists in mathematical physics, a natural philosopher in natural philosophy, a metaphysician in metaphysics, a moral philosopher in moral philosophy, and a sacred theologian in sacred theology such that all these species of knowledge satisfy the definition of science as provided by Aristotle's Posterior Analytics. Science is formally defined as the intellectual virtue of necessary and evident knowledge. All scientists should be thankful for this great work providing a logically rigorous theory of scientific knowlege in general.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You ask me to review the greatest genius in the world? I am flattered!, November 18, 2008

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This review is from: Commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (Aristotelian Commentary Series) (Paperback)

St. Thomas Aquinas is worth the years of study..

INTELLECTUAL problems today are from a misunderstanding, a irrational dislike, or unwillingness to study Aristotilian/Thomism.

I believe also that the lack of real philsophical understanding in modern higher education is also the cause of the fuzzy thinking of many moderns, who remind me of those who fell for the specious arguments of the the Sophists of old..

No one can realy begin to know philosophy unless he knows the basics of St. Thomas..!! Thank you for providing his works on Amazon, some of which have not been available to us before or difficult to find.