In this detailed and provocative study, Francis Bethel examines the life and thought of cultural critic, university professor, and sometime cowboy, John Senior (1923 1999). A privileged young man who studied the occult but became a leading proponent of traditional wisdom and arts (eventually converting to the Catholic Faith), Senior, unlike many of even his conservative peers, argued for something more than mere book learning. He championed the full restoration of realism, in which would be brought together the whole man senses, imagination, emotion, will, intellect, and body. Bethel uncovers the roots of Senior's thought, traces its provocative application, and reveals the possibilities it offers today to an academy wounded by pervasive moral and intellectual relativism, the loss of public credibility, and spiraling costs.

John Senior and the Restoration of Realism

Father Francis Bethel

Thomas More College Press

Product Description Whether for the student reader of Aristotle or the advanced scholar, this collection of the selected works of Aristotle is essential. The key parts from the great philosopher\x27s corpus\-\-they are all here. With extensive Greek\-English and English\-Greek glossaries. Review Every serious student of Aristotle I know--whether novice or research scholar--acknowledges that Apostle's accurate translations and illuminating commentaries are absolutely indispensable. ----Rev. Ronald K. Tacelli, S.J., Boston College About the Author Hippocrates G. Apostle (1910-1990), born in Greece, came to America as a young boy, obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and was professor of mathematics and philosophy at Grinnell College. Lloyd P. Gerson is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Aristotle: Selected Works

Hippocrates G. Apostle

Aristotle

Lloyd P. Gerson

The Nicomachean Ethics is an inquiry into the nature of happiness in the pursuit of which Aristotle provides and analytical and thorough discussion, not only of happiness, but also of voluntary and involuntary actions, moral character, justice, bravery, prudence, and wisdom, and the nature and significance of friendship.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Every student of politics begins with Aristotle's Politics--the first systematic treatment of the state in the West.

Aristotle's Politics

Translation is an exercise in compromise and this compromise is the one I find easiest to work with; a close study of the text requires consistency and literalness.... The Apostle translations are excellent and deserve to be more widely promoted and used" --Joshua Hochschild, Wheaton College

Aristotle's Metaphysics

What is a poem, according to Aristotle? Is poetics a science, or an art, or a work of art? In any case, how does the enjoyment of a tragedy or of poems in general contribute to the happiness of mankind?

Aristotle's Poetics

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

"This is a really excellent translation of the two Aristotelian works. The author respects English idiom and traditional understanding of the terms in a way that is truly remarkable. For instance, the names of the categories keep in English the full force of the original Greek designations, without strain on the English words. I noted numerous instances of this happy faculty as I read the translation." -Joseph Ownes Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies

Aristotle's Categories and Propositions

“Every serious student of Aristotle I know--whether novice or research scholar--acknowledges that Apostle's accurate translations and illuminating commentaries are absolutely indispensable.”\n--Rev. Ronald K. Tacelli, S.J., Boston College

Aristotle's On the Soul

“The relation between logic and metaphysics is frequently obscure in translations and interpretations of Aristotle. Apostle’s method of translation—one English word for one Greek word—makes his English text a faithful replica of the Greek original. The reader of his translations of the Posterior Analytics and of the Metaphysics will find a clear presentation of the difference between the metaphysical foundation of the organization of the sciences relative to the kinds of substances in Book Lambda of the Metaphysics and the logical analysis of definition and demonstration relative to terms and propositions in Book Beta of the Posterior Analytics.”\n—Richard McKeaon 
University of Chicago\n“If what is wanted is an accurate, consistent and intelligible translation (rather than a paraphrase) of Aristotle's logic of scientific reasoning, then by far Apostle's translation is to be preferred for serious study in the English language; such a study is greatly facilitated by extensive philosophical and textual notes, often illustrated by mathematical examples."\n—James A. Weisheipl, O.P. 
Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies

Aristotle's Posterior Analytics

Aristotle’s Physics deals with the principles of motion; it discusses nature, causation, chance, necessity, motion and its kinds, infinity, time, place, void, and whatever is necessary for motion. It does not treat its subject mathematically, and, in this respect, it differs from modern physics; but it is universal enough to be applicable to such sciences as biology and psychology, for the principles of the Physics are presupposed by these other sciences.\nAristotle was well aware of applications of mathematics to other sciences, but he used different names for those sciences, e.g., mechanics, optics, astronomy, acoustics, and these taken together hardly differ from modern physics with respect to general subject and treatment. Thus, in his Mechanics, he states that the subject belongs to physics, but the treatment is mathematical.\nHippocrates G. Apostle held that the Physics was written as a science should be, and, for this reason, he translates it accurately and scientifically, with familiar and consistent terminology, a glossary of definitions, and extensive commentaries, thus making the translation readable and understandable.

Aristotle's Physics

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