Aryeh Kosman

“The mere act of writing a book such as this is a gesture of homage to a much earlier tradition, however transformed it may be in the ways true of a living tradition, but the substance of our readings always reveals our allegiances to one or another more recent tradition. Readings of Aristotle are always conversations that involve not only the voice of Aristotle but inescapably as well the voices of his many interpreters and perforce of our teachers, through whose words we were first introduced to the master and in whose words we regularly continue to think of him. For this reason, books about Aristotle often sound like fantasies of what Aristotle would have thought if only he had had the advantages of a Harvard education, or what he might have written after a grant from the Peripatetic Society of Thrace to spend a year or two at the University of Freiburg.”
― Aryeh Kosman, The Activity of Being: An Essay on Aristotle’s Ontology