Summary
Werner Jaeger: Aristotle
Aristotle: establishing a history of his development by Werner Jaeger is an indispensable book for the philosophical study not only of Aristotle, but also of his spiritual-historical environment, at the same time a useful stimulus for a wider audience, because with his hermeneutic effort on the experience of a historical person it gives a vivid picture, not just a presentation of scientific research about what someone once said.
The seemingly self-explanatory subtitle - establishing a history of his development - indicates an important turning point in the way Aristotle was interpreted until then. The corpus of doctrinal writings was usually taken as the only authority, while the remains of dialogues and a particularly interesting, reconstructed from other sources, exhortation to philosophy (Protreptikos) were neglected. This gave the impression that Aristotle's departure from Plato was sudden and, as it were, timeless, which gives Aristotle's character a timeless quality. Jaeger, on the other hand, shows that the break with Plato is layered and can be followed in several phases, which differ both in content and in the form of presentation.
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