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Posterior Analytics by Aristotle
Category: Science
Aristotle was one of history's greatest philosophers and one of Ancient Greece's seminal thinkers, a student of Plato's and a tutor of Alexander the Great's. Aristotle's Posterior Analytics is a text that deals with demonstration, definition, and scientific knowledge.
Problems: v. I, Bk. 1-19 by Aristotle
Category: Classic | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Aristotle of Stagirus (384--322 BCE), the great Greek philosopher, researcher, logician, and scholar, studied with Plato at Athens and taught in the Academy (367--347). Subsequently he spent three years in Asia Minor at the court of his former pupil Hermeias, where he married Pythias, one of Hermeias' r ...Show more
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle Aristotle
Category: Philosophy and Religion
'The Art of Rhetoric is among the first books that teaches a speaker how to address and convince an audience. It is an extract from the time of great scholarly movements in Ancient Greece. Every page is consistently astute and each line teaches something new about human psychology and how people can be ...Show more
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public spe ...Show more
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Classics Ser.
With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils - and even for ordinary citizens in the courts of law. In response, the technique of rhetoric rapidly developed, bringing virtu ...Show more
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a model of democracy at a time when city-states lived under differing kinds of government. The writer recoun ...Show more
The Eudemian Ethics by Aristotle
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'We are looking for the things that enable us to live a noble and happy life...and what prospects decent people will have of acquiring any of them.' The Eudemian Ethics is a major treatise on moral philosophy whose central concern is what makes life worth living. Aristotle considers the role of happine ...Show more
The Metaphysics by Aristotle
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"All men by nature are actuated with the desire of knowledge," declared Aristotle. The philosopher's works are foundational to the history of science, and his treatise on metaphysics, or "first philosophy," is divided into sections of previous philosophical thought and theories; a refutation of skeptici ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle Hailed by Dante as "the master of those who know," the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) surveyed every field of learning known to the ancient world and pioneered the sciences of psychology and logic. A disciple of Plato and the tutor to Alexander the Great, Aristot ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
The most influential ethical treatise ever written, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics offers accounts of human happiness and welfare; the nature of a good person; the psychology of action and character; the virtues of character and intellect; praise, blame, and moral responsibility; practical reason; weakn ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up ...Show more