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Aristotle (384 BCE–322 BCE)

Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology. — Excerpted from Aristotle on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Aristotle

Collections of works

• Works of Aristotle

Works

Logical writings

• Organon (collected works on logic):
  • Categories (or Categoriae)
    • Categories (Owen) (trans. O. F. Owen) (1853)
    • Categories (Edghill) — Copyrighted in the United States until 2023
  • On Interpretation (trans. O. F. Owen) (1853) (or De Interpretatione)
  • Prior Analytics (trans. O. F. Owen) (1853) (or Analytica Priora)
  • Posterior Analytics
    • Posterior Analytics (Bouchier) (or Analytica Posteriora) (trans. E. S. Bouchier) (1901)
    • Posterior Analytics (Mure) — Copyrighted in the United States until 2023
  • Topics (trans. O. F. Owen) (1853) (or Topica)
  • On Sophistical Refutations (or De Sophisticis Elenchis)
    • The Sophistical Elenchi (trans. O. F. Owen) (1853)

Physical and scientific writings

• Physics (or Physica)
• On the Heavens (or De Caelo)
• On Generation and Corruption (or De Generatione et Corruptione)
• Meteorology (or Meteorologica)
• On the Cosmos (or De Mundo, or On the Universe) *
• On the Soul (Bekker 402a Περὶ Ψυχῆς, Latin De Anima)
  • On the Vital Principle (Charles Collier translator, 1855)
  • On the Soul, (J. A. Smith translator, 1931)
• Parva Naturalia or Little Physical Treatises is a collective term for the following seven works rather than a work in its own right.
  • On Sense and the Sensible (or De Sensu et Sensibilibus)
  • On Memory and Reminiscence (or De Memoria et Reminiscentia)
  • On Sleep and Sleeplessness (or De Somno et Vigilia)
  • On Dreams (or De Insomniis) *
  • On Prophesying by Dreams (or De Divinatione per Somnum)
  • On Longevity and Shortness of Life (or De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae)
  • On Youth and Old Age, On Breathing and On Life and Death (Bekker 467b Περὶ νεότητος καὶ γήρως, καὶ ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου, καὶ ἀναπνοῆς; Latin De Juventute et Senectute, De Vita et Morte, De Respiratione)
    • On Youth and Old Age (or De Juventute et Senectute)
      • On Breathing (or De Respiratione) (G. R. T. Ross) (1908) is only part of "On Youth..."
        • On Life and Death (or De Vita et Morte)
• On Breath (or De Spiritu) *
• History of Animals (or Historia Animalium, or On the History of Animals, or Description of Animals) (Cresswell) (1883)
  • History of Animals (Thompson), 1910 translation by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948), in the Works of Aristotle
  • History of Animals (Cresswell), translated by Richard Cresswell. Index of scans
• On the Parts of Animals (or De Partibus Animalium)
• On the Movement of Animals (or De Motu Animalium, or On the Movement of Animals) (Farquharson) (1912)
• On the Progression of Animals (or De Incessu Animalium)
• On the Generation of Animals (or De Generatione Animalium)
• Opusculum (Little works)
  • On Colours (or De Coloribus) *
  • On Things Heard (or De audibilibus) *
  • Physiognomics (or Physiognomonica) *
  • On Plants (or De Plantis) (Forster) (1913)*
  • On Marvellous Things Heard (or Mirabilibus Auscultationibus, or On Things Heard) *
  • Mechanical Problems (or Mechanica) *
  • On Indivisible Lines (or De Lineis Insecabilibus) *
  • Situations and Names of Winds (or Ventorum Situs) *
  • On Melissus, Xenophanes and Gorgias (or MXG) * The section On Xenophanes starts at 977a13, the section On Gorgias starts at 979a11.
• Problems (or Problemata) *

Metaphysical writings

• Metaphysics (or Metaphysica) (Ross) (1908)

Ethical writings

• Nicomachean Ethics (or Ethica Nicomachea, or The Ethics)

• Nicomachean Ethics (Chase) - 1911 translation by D. P. Chase (1820–1902)
• Nicomachean Ethics (Ross) - 1925 translation by W. D. Ross

• Great Ethics (or Magna Moralia) *
• Eudemian Ethics (or Ethica Eudemia)
• Virtues and Vices (or De Virtutibus et Vitiis Libellus, Libellus de virtutibus) *
• Politics (or Politica)

• Politics (Jowett), translated by Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893), in the Works of Aristotle.
• Politics (Ellis), translated by William Ellis (1794–1872)

• Economics (or Oeconomica) *

Aesthetic writings

• Rhetoric (Aristotle) (or Ars Rhetorica, or The Art of Rhetoric or Treatise on Rhetoric)
  • Rhetoric (Roberts, 1924) — Copyrighted in the United States until 2019
  • Rhetoric (Freese) (1924)
• Rhetoric to Alexander (or Rhetorica ad Alexandrum)
• The Poetics
  • The Poetics (or Ars Poetica), translated by Ingram Bywater (1898)
  • The Poetics translated by S. H. Butcher (1922).

Works outside the Corpus Aristotelicum

• The Constitution of the Athenians (or Athenaion Politeia, or The Athenian Constitution) (Fredrick G. Kenyon) (1921)

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.