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Title: Aristotle: Introductory Readings by Aristotle, Terence Irwin, Gail Fine ISBN: 0-87220-339-5 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1 (1 review)
Rating: 1
Summary: not useful - get fuller volume
Comment: Irwin's and Fine's translations merit a five-star rating. They are expert scholars who have for decades been at the forefront of Aristotle research. Besides 100% technical accuracy they helpfully subscript (i) Aristotle's keyterms which can't be uniformly translated and (ii) those keyterms which have only one English equivalent ('form', 'being', 'knowledge', etc).
However, I warn customers NOT to get this book (I made the mistake) but instead get Fine and Irwin's "Aristotle: Selections" (Hackett 1995) from which the "Introductory Readings" are excerpted. You'll need their full glossary and the more extensive notes if you want to understand Aritotle AT ALL. In that regard Introductory Readings is useless and that's why it merits a one-star.
Two coments in closing.
1) Every translation of Aristotle is an interpretation, and Irwin's and Fine's even more so than others due to its high frequency of interpolations. It's therefore indispensable to have another reader - say, Ackrill's (Princeton 1987) - beside you to compare what's going on.
2) "Selections" contains Irwin's phenomenal translation of the Nichomachean Ethics. However, if you are predominantly interested in that work be sure to get Irwin's full translation (Hackett 1999) first. His extensive commentary, targeted at beginners, scores a ten-star!
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Title: The Republic by Plato ISBN: 0486411214 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 18 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
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Title: Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed. by Rene Descartes, Donald Cress ISBN: 0872204200 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp ISBN: 0198752482 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Five Dialogues by Plato, G. M. A. Grube ISBN: 0872206335 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Monologion and Proslogion With the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm by Thomas Williams, Saint Of Canterbury Anselm ISBN: 0872202976 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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