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Enter the world of one of history's most influential philosophers and explore the foundations of Western thought. The Complete Works of Aristotle brings together the major philosophical and intellectual writings attributed to Aristotle, whose ideas have shaped philosophy, science, politics, ethics, logic, and literary theory for more than two thousand years. Across his works, Aristotle examines fundamental questions about knowledge, reality, morality, human nature, government, language, ar...

Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and student of Plato who stunningly changed the course of Western philosophy. He has gone down in history as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, once called his writing style "a river of gold;" and his scope of thought and subsequent influence on the study of science, logic, philosophical discourse, and theology has led many to dub him "The Philosopher."

The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle’s most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence—found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called “the Philosopher.” Drawing on their intimate knowledge of Aristotle’s thought, Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins have produced here an English-l...

Along with his teacher Plato, Aristotle is generally regarded as one of the most influential ancient thinkers in a number of philosophical fields, including political theory. The title of the Politics literally means "the things concerning the polis". Aristotle's Politics is divided into eight books which are each further divided into chapters.

The nature of life itself is examined through the lens of the "psyche," or soul, which Aristotle defines as the form of a living body. He dissects the varying capacities of living things, from the nutritional powers of plants to the sensory and rational faculties of animals and humans. The work bridges biology and psychology, explaining how the mind perceives the world and how the intellect processes abstract forms. It is a crucial investigation into the relationship between the physical o...

'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 of activities in which we use the best human capacities, both ones that contribute to our flourishing as members of a community, and ones that allow us t...

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 virtuous person to recognize the best course of action. Aristotle argued that happiness and well being is the goal of life, and that a person's pursuit of such, rightly conceived, will result in virtuous conduct. "EVERY art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is t...

This digital edition combines, for the first time, both volumes of The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, which is universally recognized as the standard English version.The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in twelve volumes between 1912 and 1954. The revised edition contains the substance of the original translation, slightly emended in light of recent scholarship; three of the original versions have been replaced by new t...

From a preeminent scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aristotle’s essential work.“Waterfield has produced a reliable, fresh, and wonderfully readable translation of the Ethics that makes Aristotle’s often elliptical style accessible to those approaching him for the first time.”―Brad Inwood, Yale UniversityThe Nicomachean Ethics is widely considered Aristotle’s most signif...

Edited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. ReevePreserved 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 of Aristotle—constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years—has long been considered the best available one-volume Aristotle. Appe...

RHETORIC is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things as come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science. Accordingly all men make use, more or less, of both; for to a certain extent all men attempt to discuss statements and to maintain them, to defend themselves and to attack others. Ordinary people do this either at random or through practice and from acquired habit. Both ways being possible, the subject can plainly be...

What if you had a single volume revealing the profound workings of the mind, memory, and dream states?This comprehensive collection brings together Aristotle's most influential writings on cognitive processes-exploring how we store information, why we dream, and the importance of rest for mental clarity. Adapted for modern readers, these texts provide a timeless lens on the mind's hidden power, bridging ancient philosophy and contemporary psychology.