Author:Aristotle

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Aristotle (384 BCE–322 BCE)

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

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Logical writings 1.2 Physical and scientific writings 1.3 Metaphysical writings 1.4 Ethical writings 1.5 Aesthetic writings 1.6 A work outside the Corpus Aristotelicum 1.7 Collection of works

[edit] Works

[edit] Logical writings

• Organon (collected works on logic):
  • Categories (or Categoriae)
  • On Interpretation (or De Interpretatione)
  • Prior Analytics (or Analytica Priora)
  • Posterior Analytics (or Analytica Posteriora)
  • Topics (or Topica)[1]
  • On Sophistical Refutations (or De Sophisticis Elenchis)

[edit] 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 (or De Anima)
• Little Physical Treatises (or Parva Naturalia):
• 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 Life and Death) (or De Juventute et Senectute, De Vita et Morte)
• On Breathing (or De Respiratione)
• On Breath (or De Spiritu) *
• History of Animals (or Historia Animalium, or On the History of Animals, or Description of Animals)
• On the Parts of Animals (or De Partibus Animalium)
• On the Movement of Animals (or De Motu Animalium, or On the Movement of Animals)
• On the Progression of Animals (or De Incessu Animalium)
• On the Generation of Animals (or De Generatione Animalium)
• On Colours (or De Coloribus) *
• De audibilibus
• Physiognomics (or Physiognomonica) *
• On Plants (or De Plantis) *
• On Marvellous Things Heard (or Mirabilibus Auscultationibus, or On Things Heard) *
• Mechanical Problems (or Mechanica) *
• Problems (or Problemata) *
• 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.

[edit] Metaphysical writings

• Metaphysics (or Metaphysica)

[edit] Ethical writings

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

[edit] Aesthetic writings

• Rhetoric (or Ars Rhetorica, or The Art of Rhetoric or Treatise on Rhetoric)
• Rhetoric to Alexander (or Rhetorica ad Alexandrum)
• The Poetics (or Ars Poetica), translated by Ingram Bywater

[edit] A work outside the Corpus Aristotelicum

• The Constitution of the Athenians (or Athenaion Politeia, or The Athenian Constitution)

[edit] Collection of works

• Works of Aristotle

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