Ever since Galileo attacked Aristotle's view of the world, the Greek philosopher's ideas have been regarded as a barrier to scientific progress. Michael Rowan-Robinson disagrees. In the spring of 1998 ...

THIS scholarly work has been received by students and specialists alike as an invaluable addition to Aristotelian literature. The Introduction and Com mentary are masterpieces of their kind and help ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Twenty-three centuries ago, Aristotle of Stagirus laid out a landscape of logic, physics, metaphysics, aesthetics, ...

In his look at the meaning of risk (25 June, p 30), Nicolas Bouleau writes: “The concept of chance as we understand it today emerged long after the birth of philosophy. The ancient Greeks ...

In the spring of 1998 I found myself standing on the stones of the Lyceum of Aristotle in Athens. It was strange to think that for two millennia no-one had stood on this spot and known the ...

I AM unable to find the passage in his works, but I think it was Prof. Ostwald who pointed out that while Aristotle was much more impressed with the retarding effect on the velocity of the mass of the ...