Athenian Constitution. Eudemian Ethics. Virtues and Vices

by Aristotle, H. Rackham

Overview

Government of state and self.

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:	9780674993150
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1935
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #285
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	512
Sales rank:	834,202
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.10(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Harris Rackham (1868–1944) was a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

The Athenian Constitution

Introduction

Text and Translation

Index

The Eudemian Ethics

Introduction

Text and Translation

Book I

Book II

Book III

Book VII

Book VIII

Index

On Virtues and Vices

Introduction

Text and Translation

Index