Aristotle

Aristotle asks, What is existence? How can things continue to exist yet change, and how can we best understand the world we live in? Find out....

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is widely regarded as one of the most important works in the history of Western philosophy....

In the Nicomachean Ethics (so called after their first editor, Aristotle's son Nicomachus) Aristotle sets out to discover the good life for man....

In Aristotle's Rhetoric, the philosopher identifies rhetoric as one of the three key elements of philosophy, along with logic and dialectic....

Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek means "making" and includes drama, lyric and epic poetry, and the dithyramb).

Aristotle’s Organon comprises six key essays on logic, initially collected by Theophrastus, his successor as head of the Peripatetic school, and given its final form by Andronicus some three centuries later....

In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process....

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Aristotle considers ‘the principles and causes of change, or movement’ behind both animate and inanimate things....

The book is one of the most influential ethical treatises of all time. Written in 350 BC, it identifies happiness as life's goal....

Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle’s most famous work on the subject of ethics and virtue....

The most precise and authoritative translation of one of the founding works of Western culture, in an edition supported by helpful, effective notes.

Aristotle's contribution to the sum of wisdom dominates all our philosophy and even provides direction...

Over two millennia after its compilation, the Politics still offers much to consider with regards to political science....

Poetics and Rhetoric are the two major works by Aristotle which remain key behavioural handbooks for anyone interested in story, performance, presentation and indeed psychology....

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy after the Allegory of the Cave. Incomparable logic and findings about the things that matter in life, with a clear, succinct prose touch....

An inviting and accessible new translation of Aristotle's complete Poetics—the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding stories....

Two contrasting reflections by Aristotle which cover very particular ground....

10 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for...

“On Dreams” hypothesizes that we dream because our sensory organs continue to function while we sleep. Aristotle compares dreams to hallucinations - errors in our sense perception....