SOURCE: "The Character of Aristotle's Thought and His Philosophic Method," in Aristotle and His Philosophy, The University of North Carolina Press, 1982, pp. 30-39.
In the following essay, Edel reviews Aristotle's method of philosophical analysis, noting its strengths and weaknesses. Edel states that Aristotle's "mode of inquiry" is characterized by a common-sense attitude, by pluralistic contextualism (that is, the notion that an idea must be understood within a specific, rather than universal, context), and by his treatment of the world as possessing a single order of nature.
