An Answer to Dr. Gillies's Supplement To His New Analysis of Aristotle's Works; In Which the Unfaithfulness of His Translation of Aristotle's Ethics Is Unfolded

Excerpt from An Answer to Dr. Gillies's Supplement: To His New Analysis of Aristotle's Works; In Which the Unfaithfulness of His Translation of Aristotle's Ethics Is Unfolded Archetypes.' To this I answer, that I have already shown, in the Introduction to my translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics, that Aristotle did not essentially differ from Plato in the doctrine of ideas; and I shall now farther observe, that the Stagirite would not be consistent with himself unless he admitted that those ideas which subsist in Deity with fabricative power and unerring knowledge, subsist also in the human soul in a manner accommodated to its nature; so as to possess partial instead of universal knowledge, to be deprived of productive power, and to be wakened from dormant capacity into energy by objects of sense. This is evident from the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.