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Davia (2017) Aristotle and the Endoxic Method.

Davia, Carlo (2017). Aristotle and the Endoxic Method. Journal of the History of Philosophy 55 (3):383-405.Standard Accounts(1) The passage specifies a discrete, three-step procedure: first set the phenomena before us; second, discuss the difficulties; third, resolve those difficulties so as to prove the truth of the most and most authoritative endoxa (“reputable opinions”).(2) By “set the pheno..

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Barnes (1980) Aristotle and the methods of ethics

Barnes, Jonathan (1980). Aristotle and the methods of ethics. Revue Internationale de Philosophie 34 (3):490.2.In EN H 1 Aristotle speaks specifically of άχρασία ; but the method he sketches is meant to have a broader application ; for in the case of άχρασία we must proceed ώσπερ επί των άλλων. There can be no doubt that τά άλλα include other issues in practical philosophy : does the method exte..

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Bolton (1990) The Epistemological Basis of Aristotelian Dialectic

Bolton, Robert (1990). The Epistemological Basis of Aristotelian Dialectic. In Daniel Devereux & Pierre Pellegrin, Biologie, Logique et Metaphysique Chez Aristote: Actes du Seminaire Cr.S.-N.S.F., 28 Juin-3 Juillet 1987. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. pp. 185-236. 1. CONFLICTING VIEWS OF DIALECTICIn recent accounts of the procedures which Aristotle recommends an..

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Frede (2012) The endoxon Mystique: What endoxa are and What They are Not

Frede, Dorothea (2012). The endoxon Mystique: What endoxa are and What They are Not. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 43:185-215.   1. The mystique In this article I hope to demystify the authority of the endoxa in Aristotle. This is not to deny that there is any basis for that author ity. But just as Betty Friedan’s ground-breaking work in the 1960s, The Feminine Mystique, did not intend to..

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