Major Works of Aristotle

by Aristotle

Overview

"Major Works of Aristotle" contains:
• An aesthetic front page.
• A beginning click-able Table of Contents for all titles.
• Inner click-able Tables of Contents for all individual books with multiple chapters.
• Nicely organized chapters and text.

Works of the author included in this collection:
• CATEGORIES
• ON INTERPRETATION
• PRIOR ANALYTICS
• POSTERIOR ANALYTICS
• TOPICS
• ON SOPHISTICAL REFUTATIONS
• PHYSICS
• ON THE HEAVENS
• ON THE GENERATION AND CORRUPTION
• METEOROLOGY
• ON THE SOUL
• ON SENSE AND THE SENSIBLE
• ON MEMORY AND REMINISCENCE
• ON SLEEP AND SLEEPLESSNESS
• ON DREAMS
• ON PROPHESYING BY DREAMS
• ON LONGEVITY AND SHORTNESS OF LIFE
• ON YOUTH AND OLD AGE, ON LIFE AND DEATH, ON BREATHING
• THE HISTORY OF ANIMALS
• ON THE PARTS OF ANIMALS
• ON THE MOTION OF ANIMALS
• ON THE GAIT OF ANIMALS
• ON THE GENERATION OF ANIMALS
• METAPHYSICS
• NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
• POLITICS
• THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION
• RHETORIC
• POETICS

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150998544
Publisher:	Minerva Classics
Publication date:	07/29/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the Macedonian city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BC). His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great starting from 343 BC. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Aristotle was the first genuine scientist in history ... [and] every scientist is in his debt."

Teaching Alexander the Great gave Aristotle many opportunities and an abundance of supplies. He established a library in the Lyceum which aided in the production of many of his hundreds of books. The fact that Aristotle was a pupil of Plato contributed to his former views of Platonism, but, following Plato's death, Aristotle immersed himself in empirical studies and shifted from Platonism to empiricism. He believed all peoples' concepts and all of their knowledge was ultimately based on perception. Aristotle's views on natural sciences represent the groundwork underlying many of his works.

Aristotle's views on physical science profoundly shaped medieval scholarship. Their influence extended into the Renaissance and were not replaced systematically until the Enlightenment and theories such as classical mechanics. Some of Aristotle's zoological observations, such as on the hectocotyl (reproductive) arm of the octopus, were not confirmed or refuted until the 19th century. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic.

The sum of his work's influence often ranks him among the world's top personalities of all time with the greatest influence, along with his teacher Plato, and his pupil Alexander the Great.

Source: Wikipedia