Aristotle

A New Translation of the Nichomachean Ethics of Aristotle

by Aristotle

Aristotle is indisputably of central importance to the development of philosophical and scientific thought in the western world. Here he refers to three types of lives, the common life, the political life, and...

The Metaphysics

by Aristotle & Hugh Lawson-Tancred

In The Metaphysics, Aristotle laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy. The son of a doctor and an eminent scientist in his own right, Aristotle was always passionately interested...

De Anima

by Aristotle & Hugh Lawson-Tancred

On the Heavens

by Aristotle

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many...

On Generation and Corruption

by Aristotle

OUR next task is to study coming-to-be and passing-away. We are to distinguish the causes, and to state the definitions, of these processes considered in general-as changes predicable uniformly of all the things...

The Essential Aristotle

by Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and a student of Plato. He taught Alexander the Great, and wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government,...

The Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

Nicomachean Ethics focuses on the importance of habitually behaving virtuously and developing a virtuous character. Aristotle emphasized the importance of context to ethical behavior, and the ability of the...

The Athenian Constitution

by Aristotle

Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states; it is widely assumed that these were research for the Politics, and that many of them were written or drafted by his students....

Rhetoric

by Aristotle

Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things that come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science. Accordingly all men make use,...

The Politics

by Aristotle

Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some...

The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

by Marcus Aurelius, Plato & Aristotle

In the long history of philosophy and literature, few have been so widely read and admired as the great thinkers of Greece and Rome. For modern audiences, this eBook bundle—which collects the Modern Library...

The Basic Works of Aristotle

by Aristotle & Richard Mckeon

Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works...

Constitution of Athens and Related Texts

by Aristotle

A refreshing approach to the study of major Western philosophers.  Introductory essays by noted scholars enliven each volume with insights into the human side of the great thinkers, and provide authoritative...