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Article: Sharples, R. W., editor. Whose Aristotle? Whose Aristotelianism?(Book Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Ashgate Keeling Series in Ancient Philosophy. Burlington: Ashgate, 2001. 192 pp. Cloth, $59.95--The relation between Aristotle's own views and inquiries and later Aristotelians, observes Sharpies, is a problematic one. Right from the outset one may ask whether Aristotle's immediate followers should be judged as "Aristotelians," if they are to be so judged at all, in terms of their loyalty to his doctrines or in terms of their readiness to continue his inquiries in a self-critical spirit. This in turn leads to the following three questions. First, "how far was Aristotle himself sufficiently critical of his own opinions?" Answer. "with hindsight, not sufficiently." Second, ...