Aristotle for Everybody [antikvár]

Preface When the idea for this book first occurred to me, I thought of entitling it The Children's Aristotle or Aristotle for Children, But those titles would not have accurately conveyed the audience for whom this simple, easy-to-read exposition of Aristotle's common-sense philosophy is intended. The audience, I felt, was everybody—of any age, from twelve or fourteen years old upward. Hence the title chosen, and the subtitle "Difficult Thought Made Easy," together with the statement that this book is an introduction to common sense. When I say "everybody," I mean everybody except professional philosophers; in other words, everybody of ordmaiy experience and intelligence unspoil^ by the sophistication and specialization of academic thought. Nevertheless, I have added an Epilogue which students of philosophy who come upon this book may find useful as a guide to the reading of Aristotle's own works on the subjects covered in this book. My two sons, Douglas and Philip (thirteen and eleven, respectively), read portions of the manuscript as it came from my ^ewriter last summer in Aspen. I vii