Metaphysics, Volume II: Books 10-14. Oeconomica. Magna Moralia

by Aristotle, Hugh Tredennick, G. Cyril Armstrong

Overview

First things.

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil in Asia Minor. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–342 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip’s death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of “Peripatetics”), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander’s death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.

Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows:

I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices.
II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica.
III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc.
IV Metaphysics: on being as being.
V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics.
VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship.
VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics, and metaphysics.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674993174
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1935
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #287
Edition description:	9th printing/1st pub.1935/index
Pages:	704
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.30(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Hugh Tredennick (1899–1982) was Professor of Classics at Royal Holloway College and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at London University.

George Cyril Armstrong (b. 1875) taught Latin and Greek at schools in England and the United States.

Table of Contents

Aristotle's Works

The Metaphysics

Book X

Book XI

Book XII

Book XIII

Book XIV

Index

The Oeconomica

Introduction

Book I

Book II

Book III

Index

The Magna Moralia

Introduction

Book I

Book II

Index