Weisheipl's Commentary on the Posterior Analytics Online
Thursday, October 25, 2012 Tom Osborne I was just looking again at my poorly reproduced copy of Weisheipl’s notes on Aristotelian Methodology, and decided to look for a cleaner copy online. There is a redone copy here, with clearer marks and divisions: http://pvspade.com/Logic/docs/Weisheipl.pdf. The formatting is improved so that it is easier to read.
There are a few ways in which it is still helpful to look at the old versions that circulate around. The schematic representations do not seem to be reproduced. For example, in the old version there is a schematic representation of the “principia immediata syllogismi” which is not reproduced in the online version. The online version lacks the Appendices. I wonder if Weisheipl made different versions of this, and would like to know more about what the history is.
Reader Comments (3)
Tom,
I've got the Xeroxed copy, from Fr Weisheipl, and have been working over the years and making a full book of this. I even had a poor student type the whole thing up, and later had a graduate student work on some formatting—including the appendixes. But the thing has lain in dry-dock for a while. I did obtain permission to republish the thing in an academic press, but haven't achieved the goal of getting the whole thing into intact, comprehensive form.
But I can scan the whole thing in the original, and tidy it up with Adobe Acrobat, and post it here on the site, sure. It's hard to read Fr Weisheipl's handwriting, but I can, and know what books, etc., he's referring to. The impelling notion of spreading the good word about Fr Weisheipl's work, and above about the importance of the Posterior Analytics, now light a fire underneath me, so I'll work on this right away.
Still, it would be very nice to get this thing out in some published form. I'm thinking an iBook.
It would be great for everyone to have a cleaned up and complete copy. I at least have found my old copy unusually helpful. The Posterior Analytics is hard to interpret, and it is nice to have an overview.
My copy is made from Ed Houser's old typescript, which dates from maybe even the 70s or before, I don't know.
Have you checked Ite ad Thomam's Out of Print Library? Don Paco has a lot of hidden treasures over there.