Commentary on the Posterior Analytics
by Thomas Aquinas · Expositio libri Posteriorum Analyticorum
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- c. 1271-1272
- Era
- Medieval
- Form
- Treatise
- Language
- Latin
- Length
- Long · 400 pp300 to 700 pages
- Difficulty
- Difficult4 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendCommentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, translated by Richard BerquistDumb Ox Books, 2007Complete modern translation with Aristotle's text interleaved.
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A line-by-line exposition of Aristotle's treatise on demonstrative knowledge, written near the end of Aquinas' life. The Proemium, the part most often assigned, divides logic into its branches and locates the Posterior Analytics as the science of the demonstration that produces certain knowledge from its causes. The commentary then follows Aristotle through what a demonstration is, what its premises must be, how definitions relate to causes, and how first principles are grasped.
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