Book review of T. Rego, La filosofía del sentido común según Aristóteles. Roma: Leonardo da Vinci, 2011. 137pp.
"Anuario Filosófico" 45 (2012) 203-206
Rego compare Aristotle with a contemporary philosopher, Antonio Livi. He searchs his realism (that stands under the... more
Rego compare Aristotle with a contemporary philosopher, Antonio Livi. He searchs his realism (that stands under the name of "philosophy of common sense or alethic logic") in Aristotelian philosophy. So he looks for the material logic in Aristotle.
The first part deals with the common sense in the methodology of Aristotle, while the second reviews the verification of the five judgments implicitly made by common sense according to Livi.
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