__The Middle Included__ is the first comprehensive account of the Ancient Greek word __logos__ in Aristotelian philosophy. __Logos__ means many things in the Aristotelian corpus: essential formula, proportion, reason, and language. Surveying these meanings in Aristotle’s logic, physics, and ethics, Ömer Aygün persuasively demonstrates that these divers meanings of __logos__ all refer to a basic sense of “gathering” or “inclusiveness.” In this sense, __logos__ functions as a counterpart to a formal version of the principles of non-contradiction and of the excluded middle in his corpus. Aygün thus shifts Aristotle’s traditional image from that of the father of formal logic, classificatory thinking, and __exclusion__ to a more nuanced image of him as a thinker of __inclusion__. __The Middle Included__ also explores human language in Aristotelian philosophy. After an account of acoustic phenomena and animal communication, __Aygün__ argues that human language for Aristotle is the ability to understand and relay both first-hand experiences and non-first-hand experiences. This definition is key to understanding many core human experiences such as science, history, news media, education, sophistry, and indeed philosophy itself. __Logos__ is thus never associated with any other animal nor with anything divine—it remains strictly and rigorously secular, humane, and yet full of the wonder.

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Chicago Distribution Center (CDC Presses), [N.p.], 2016

Rereading ancient philosophy, Evanston, Illinois, 2017

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Source title: The Middle Included: Logos in Aristotle (Rereading Ancient Philosophy)

"The Middle Included is a systematic exploration of the meanings of logos throughout Aristotle{u2019}s work. It claims that the basic meaning is 'gathering,' in the sense of a relation that holds its terms together without isolating them or collapsing one to the other. This basic meaning applies to logos in the sense of human language as well. Aristotle describes how some animals are capable of understanding non-firsthand experience without being able to relay it, while others relay it without understanding its content. Aygün argues that what distinguishes human language, for Aristotle, is its ability to both understand and relay non-firsthand experiences along with firsthand ones. This ability is key to understanding the human condition: science, history, news media, education, propaganda, gossip, utopian fiction, and sophistry, as well as philosophy. Aristotle{u2019}s name for this peculiar but crucial human ability of 'gathering' firsthand experience with non-firsthand experience, Ömer Aygün finds, is logos, and this leads to a claim about the specificity of human rationality and language."--Provided by publisher

The Middle Included is a systematic exploration of the meanings of logos throughout Aristotle’s work. It claims that the basic meaning is “gathering,” a relation that holds its terms together without isolating them or collapsing one to the other. This meaning also applies to logos in the sense of human language. Aristotle describes how some animals are capable of understanding non-firsthand experience without being able to relay it, while others relay it without understanding. Aygün argues that what distinguishes human language, for Aristotle, is its ability to both understand and relay firsthand and non-firsthand experiences. This ability is key to understanding the human condition: science, history, news media, propaganda, gossip, utopian fiction, and sophistry, as well as philosophy. Ömer Aygün finds Aristotle’s name for this peculiar but crucial human ability of “gathering” both experiences is logos, and this leads to a claim about the specificity of human rationality and language.

Offers a systematic exploration of the meanings of logos throughout Aristotle's work. This volume claims that the basic meaning is "gathering", in the sense of a relation that holds its terms together without isolating them or collapsing one to the other. This basic meaning applies to logos in the sense of human language as well.

2017-05-08