Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis.
Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes..
Other works including the Athenian Constitution; more works also of doubtful authorship.
VII.
On Art: Art of Rhetoric and Poetics.
VI.
Metaphysics: on being as being.
V.
Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc.
IV.
Logical: Categories
On Interpretation
Analytics (Prior and Posterior)
On Sophistical Refutations
Topica.
III.
Practical: Nicomachean Ethics
Great Ethics (Magna Moralia)
Eudemian Ethics
Politics
Oeconomica (on the good of the family)
Virtues and Vices.
II.
They can be categorized as follows:I.
Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander’s death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.
Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious).
After Philip’s death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of “Peripatetics”), the Lyceum at Athens.
After some time at Mitylene, in 343–2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander.
He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–47); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias’s relations.
Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis
