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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\New Hackett Aristotle Ser.
Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", he ass ...Show more
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply 'the master of ...Show more
On the Heavens by Aristotle; W. K. C. Guthrie (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-47); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor a ...Show more
On the Soul - and Other Works by ARISTOTLE
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'. . . the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul. . . 'What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so he offers a psychological theory that encompasses not only human beings but all living beings. Its ...Show more
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Aristotle
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and self-control, friendship and courage, Aristotle's lectu ...Show more
Physics by David (INT) Robin (TRN); Bobstock Aristotle; Waterfield
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Physics. Writings on Natural Philosophy (Concise Edition) by ARISTOTLE
Category: Science | Series: Foundations Ser.
Aristotle's great work that gave the foundations to Galileo, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein's much later discoveries about the the natural laws of life and the universe. In the philosophical language of Aristotle and the Greeks of Antiquity Physics roughly translates as 'the order of nature', covering ...Show more
Poetics by Aristotle
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Poeticsby Aristotleely, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song. Two of the parts constitute the medium of imitation, one the manner, and three the objects of imitation. And these complete the list. These elements have been employed, we may say, by the poets to a man; in fact, every play cont ...Show more
Poetics by Aristotle
Category: Philosophy
Aristotle's Politics is a key document in Western political thought. In these first two books Aristotle shows his complete mastery of political theory and practice, and raises many crucial issues still with us today. In Book I he argues vigorously for a political theory based on 'nature'. By nature, man ...Show more
Politics by Aristotle
Category: History
Aristotle examines government, politics and how societies are run - from households to city states - and establishes how successful constitutions can best be initiated and upheld. A timeless study of politics and society by one of the all-time greatest thinkers. A student of Plato, Aristotle is consider ...Show more
Politics: A New Translation by Aristotle
Category: Philosophy
This new translation of Aristotle's Politics is a model of accuracy and consistency and fits seamlessly with the translator's Nicomachean Ethics, allowing the two to be read together, as Aristotle intended. Sequentially numbered endnotes provide the information most needed at each juncture, while a deta ...Show more