The Organon Or Logical Treatises of Aristotle translated by Thomas Taylor: With Copious Elucidations from the Commentaries of Ammonius, Porphyry and Simplicius

by Thomas Taylor (Translator)

Overview

The Organon Or Logical Treatises of Aristotle translated by Thomas Taylor with Copious Elucidations from the Commentaries of Ammonius, Porphyry and Simplicius

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781078710114
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	11/03/2020
Pages:	784
Sales rank:	808,024
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.56(d)

About the Author

Thomas Taylor was one of the outstanding translators of the philosophical writings of the Greeks and Romans, and also published several original works on philosophy and mathematics. Many of his important contributions in these fields have been long out-of-print and are extremely difficult to obtain, having been issued in very small editions. Most of Taylor's translations have an archaic elegance which preserves the spirit of the older authors in a manner not evident in more recent translations. Taylor is known for his authoritative translations of the Platonists; he was practically the sole source of Neo-Platonic thought in the transcendentalist movement of New England. Taylor's work was enthusiastically acclaimed by Emerson, who referred to the translator as "a Greek born out of his time, and dropped on the ridicule of a blind and frivolous age.