Аннотация: How a seeker of wisdom succeeded to earn money after communicating with Aristotle. The story.
How a seeker of wisdom succeeded to earn money after communicating with Aristotle. The story.
In ancient Greece, respected people sought to expand their knowledge.
One of the seekers of wisdom visited Aristotle.
Aristotle could not devote all his time to the seeker of wisdom, but, nevertheless, a significant volume of information was learned and heard.
Returning to his hometown, the seeker of wisdom published a book in which he told the world about Aristotle.
There was many various interesting information in this book. For example, it was written there: 'Aristotle had a special interest in rhetoric, which subsequently will be embodied in such works as "Rhetoric", 'Topics', 'Prior Analytics', 'Posterior Analytics', 'On Sophistical Refutations'...
Residents of the hometown of the seeker of wisdom reacted with interest to the personality of Aristotle. But with all due respect to Aristotle, a doubt was expressed: was it not possible, whether it was appropriate to write one essay 'The Prior and Posterior Analytics' instead of the two essays 'Prior Analytics' and 'Posterior Analytics'?
On this occasion, controversy unfolded and a discussion took place.
Public attention, after a while, redirected to other topics.
Public opinion about the book, dedicated to Aristotle, was mixed. However, Aristotle aroused great public interest, and the author of the book became widely known.
Subsequent biographers of Aristotle were mentioning the book of the seeker of wisdom and claimed that he earned some money from this book.
In general, this whole situation served to increase the interest of the inhabitants of Ancient Greece in philosophy.
In the depth of many centuries, the text of the book has been lost, but references to it have been preserved in the works of many antique authors.
Nowadays, this book is considered an example of the intellectual activity of Aristotle and the inhabitants of ancient Greece, who sought knowledge.
In our time, it is believed that the author was the first to formulate the question of 'two books of Aristotle' - this issue was widely discussed by subsequent biographers of Aristotle from different points of view.
June 19, 2020 05:27
Translation from Russian into English: June 19, 2020 05:52.
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