What's Aristotle's favourite figure for expressing his ideas in Posterior Analytics? #geometry #Aristotle #style

Your votes are in, and you're quite right - it's the triangle! But here's a fun fact: in #Metaphysics the predominant figure is the circle. And as for squares, they lag behind across the board! Great to see how Aristotle #shapes his ideas 🔼⏺️⏹️#geometry #philosophy #style

In our exploration of Posterior Analytics Book 2, we scrutinized the hunt for knowledge, the formation of definitions, the language of mathematics and the use of the fabulous. Onwards to the Prior Analytics..#STEM #enquiry #knowledge #logic #mathematics #mythical #beasts

We're off to a flying start with Prior Analytics. The first session highlighted, in all sorts of ways, just how significant this extraordinary text is #Aristotle #logic #argumentation #knowledge #methodology #STEM #Arts #Humanities

'What's in a name?' Our week on Categories had us thinking pretty hard about that. Or more precisely the status of, and appropriate translation for, onomata... #Aristotle #translation #philosophicalterms

It's been a whistle-stop tour through 'Topics' but we've touched on its relationship to 'Categories', the style and unity of the text, principles of clarity and the figure of the dyskolos dialectician. Also the linguistic puzzle of τὁ τί ἦν εἶναι

A wonderful conference and brilliant audience #Aristotle #philosophy #community #style #Rhetoric

Hot on the heels of the conference we're back to another text. Alessandro Vatri's introduction to On Sophistical Refutations was a tour de force, balanced by an equally brilliant exposition of ἀδολεσχία's complex range #refutations #argumentation #sophists #babbling #Clouds

Yay. Swam beneath Parnassus. Best way to prepare for tomorrow's How Aristotle Writes seminar. And had good news on annual cancer survivor scan. Feeling eudaimon.

We're back and we've had two barnstorming sessions this week on the brilliantly rich Book 1 of Nicomachean Ethics. So many connections to make... #ethics #style #commentators #metaphor

I'm struggling with Hobbes' weirdly de-democratised version of Aristotle's RHETORIC for a Special Issue of the journal RHETORICA I'm editing. He literally excised every single mention of "ordinary" people's capacity to learn the art of persuasion. Aristotle Beyond the Academy How Aristotle Writes

It was a TENSE session studying Nicomachean Ethics Book 2 feat. the #present vs the #perfect, & #aorist. Followed by a different kind of tensing up with a look at the #athletes across all the books. Hurrah for Aristotle's approval of sports massages! (1118b) #training #philosophy

We're making strides with Nicomachean Ethics. This week on the distinction between wishing & deliberating and a first look at Attic elements in Aristotle was especially illuminating. #wish #deliberate #Attic #language

Nicomachean Ethics is giving us so much food for thought! Today's highlights were Aristotle's engagement with #art, the nature of #scientific knowledge, and types of #friendship set against the lived experience of #Athens. And we still have two more books to explore...

If you want a jocular account of the life of Aristotle, tune into You're Dead to Me at 1000 AM BBC Radio 4. Here's a double-faced bust of Aristotle I saw yesterday in Athens National Museum. 2 Stagirites better than 1? bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… Aristotle Beyond the Academy How Aristotle Writes

'The style of the Politics is of an easy, half-conversational character' (Newman, 1887, Vol. 1, p. vii) - we're looking forward to dissecting its style starting with Book 1 next week #Aristotle #politics #style

Which text is closest to Aristotle's Politics in terms of style? A key question in our initial weeks of exploring this work. Answers on a postcard please...#author #text #style #corpus

Wow! What a brilliant first day for the Style & Substance workshop. Terrific papers ranging from the #Analytics to the #Poetics and thought-provoking discussions after each. Lots of food for thought and more to come..Roll on Day 2! #Aristotle #style #philosophy

Aristotle standing proud at our Style & Substance workshop yesterday with his good friend Prof. Phil Horky. Discussions touched on: #style #Stoics #metaphors #synaesthesia #pleasure #fragments #irony #ventriloquism #politics and of course #Aristotle...It was quite the day!

Photographic evidence that discussing the relationship between style and philosophy in Aristotle's works intensively for three days makes people happy...