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Aristotle’s statement that - in terms of philosophy - poetry is superior to history can be understood better, when analysed in the context of the Stagirite’s epistemology, ontology, and eudaimonic ethics. Both poetry and history deal with numerous contingent and chaotic events, but while history is only reconstructive, poetry reworks its matter more thoroughly. History attempts to recount all events...
Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He is founder of the research programme, ‘social epistemology’, which is the name of his first book and a journal he founded in 1987. His recent books include Science (1997), Open University Press and University of Minnesota Press, The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society (1999), Open University Press,...
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