دانلود کتاب Aristotle on Human Nature: The Animal with Logos

Exploring Aristotle’s concept of logos as a foundational concept of human nature, this volume explores its place in the history of philosophy. Expert contributors re-position our understanding of it as a singular additional feature of human nature by arguing that logos is the organizing principle of human life itself.

Tracing its multiple meanings in different contexts, including reason, logic, speech, ratio, account, and form, this collection proves that there is no single way to translate the term. Split into three parts, this book systematically analyses logos in relation to metaphysics, phusis, ethos, and polis. Contributors highlight the ways in which we can see logos in human thinking, in the organizing principles of our bodies, in our perception of the world, in our social and political life, and through our productive arts. Through this focus, logos reveals itself not as one feature amongst others, but instead as the feature, that organizes all others, from the most “animal” to the most “spiritual.” By presenting logos in this way, readers gain a complex account of the philosophy of human nature.