Philosophy and Dialectics in Aristotle: a Synoptic Approach

Authors

  • Alejandro G. Vigo Univ. de Navarra

Keywords:

Dialectics, Aristotle, endoxa, Epistemology

Abstract

This article addresses the question of the role and of the scope of dialectics in Aristotle’s philosophy, a problem that has been at the center of specialist literature on the topic for the last forty or fifty years. In the first part a summary of the contemporary debate is given and a distinction is drawn between three characteristic moments in it, which revolve around the problem of method in Aristotle’s philosophy. There then follows a sort of global reconstruction that takes a synoptic approach to the relationship between philosophy and dialectics in Aristotelian thought.

Published

2016-05-05

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