Books by Aristotle

De Generatione et Corruptione

This volume contains a close translation, suitable for students without a knowledge of Greek, together with a philosophical commentary. It contains some of Aristotle's most influential thoughts in logic, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of science.

Addresses the question of how to live well, and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system. In this title, the author sets out to examine the nature of happiness. It discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, and the different forms of friendship.

Aristotle Categoriae et Liber de Interpretatione

Richard Janko's acclaimed translation of Aristotle's Poetics is accompanied by the most comprehensive commentary available in English that does not presume knowledge of the original Greek. Two other unique features are Janko's translations with notes of both the Tractatus Coislinianus , which is argued to be a summary of the lost second book of the Poetics, and fragments of Aristotle's dialogue On Poets, including recently discovered texts about catharsis, which appear in English for the first time.

A translation of the third book (Beta) of Metaphysics, with related chapters from the eleventh book (Kappa). The introduction and commentary give detailed guidance to the texts, in which Aristotle sets out the main problems of metaphysics or "first philosophy" and assesses possible solutions.

Aristotle De Arte Poetica

Aristotle Metaphysica

Edited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve 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 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. Appearing in paperback at long last, this edition includes selections from the Organon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, Rhetoric, among others, and On the Soul, On Generation and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics in their entirety.

In a new English translation by Christopher Rowe, this great classic of moral philosophy by Aristotle is accompanied here by an extended introduction and detailed line-by-line commentary by Sarah Broadie. Assuming no knowledge of Greek, her approach should prove useful for students reading the text for the first time.

This volume contains a translation of three of the eight books of "Eudemian Ethics", together with a philosophical commentary on them from a contemporary point of view.

This reissue of Richard Robinson's classic volume on Aristotle's Politics contains his clear and accurate translation of, and commentary on, Books III and IV, brought up to date by a supplementary essay and new bibliography by David Keyt. This is the ideal companion to study these important books of a classic text in the history of political philosophy.

In books VIII and IX of his work on moral philosophy, Aristotle gives perhaps the most famous of all philosophical discussions of friendship. Michael Pakaluk presents a systematic study of these books, showing how important Aristotle's treatment of friendship is to his ethics as a whole.

Categories and De Interpretatione

Poetics

Metaphysics is the study of existence at the highest level of generality. This book presents key topics that have always figured on the agenda of metaphysics: the nature and rationale of existence, the differentiation of what is actual from the unreal and mere possibility, and the prospects and limits of our knowledge of the real.

This volume contains a close translation., suitable for students without a knowlegde of Greek, of the seventh and eigth books of Aristotle's Metaphysics, together with a philosophical commentary. In these difficult books, which are central to his metaphysical system, Aristotle discusses the nature of perceptible reality.

Aristotle Ars Rhetorica

A close translation of the fourth, fifth and sixth books of the "Metaphysics", in which Aristotle discusses the nature and scope of metaphysics. The translation is accompanied by an interpretative and critical commentary. The second edition includes an expanded bibliography.

Aristotle is the founder of the science of biology. He develops his principles for biological investigation, and explanation, and applies those principles to explain why the different animal kinds have the different parts that they do. This work, a translation from the Greek, aims to reflect the subtlety and detail of Aristotle's reasoning.

The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hardheaded view that all processes are ultimately material. He argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms, and in so doing he probed some of the deepest questions of philosophy: What is existence? How is change possible? And are there certain things that must exist for anything else to exist at all? The seminal notions discussed in The Metaphysics - of 'substance' and associated concepts of matter and form, essence and accident, potentiality and actuality - have had a profound and enduring influence, and laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy.

Here is a new translation, remarkable for its accuracy and refreshing clarity of exposition, of the first major work of literary criticism.

This is an English translation of arguably the first systematic treatment of issues in the philosophy of mind, and one of the greatest works on the subject.

"This volume is an impressive tour de force. It is state-of-the-art Aristotle: it employs the most recent philological, philosophical, and logical advances which since the 1970's at least have rendered previous translations and commentaries obsolete. The translation is the first to take account of the recent epistemically orientated natural-deduction approach, which restores Aristotle's reputation as a consummate logician and reveals much more of Aristotle's method than previous approaches. Every page of Robin Smith's commentary shows extensive learning, taste, imagination, and skill. . . . An important and lasting contribution, not only to Aristotle scholarship and to the history of logic, but also to the history of philosophy itself." --John Corcoran, SUNY Buffalo

A new contribution to classical scholarship, this text of Aristotle's "Eudemian Ethics" is the product of many years of work, founded upon the work of the late Sir David Ross.

This volume contains a new translation of Books I and VIII of Aristotle's "Topics", together with a philosophical commentary on these works and additional extracts from Books II and III.

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 recounts the major reforms of Solon, the rule of the tyrant Pisistratus and his sons, the emergence of the democracy in which power was shared by all free male citizens, and the leadership of Pericles and the demagogues who followed him. He goes on to examine the city's administration in his own time - the council, the officials and the judicial system. For its information on Athens' development and how the democracy worked, The Athenian Constitution is an invaluable source of knowledge about the Athenian city-state.