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Aristotle, Susan Sauvé Meyer (trans.)
Aristotle’s essential guide to human flourishing - the Nicomachean Ethics - in a lively new abridged translation
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Aristotle
This new translation of Aristotle's Politics is a model of accuracy and consistency and fits seamlessly with the translator's Nicomachean Ethics , allowing the two to be read together, as…
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A timeless exploration of virtue, morality and the pursuit of a flourishing life, The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle remains a cornerstone in philosophical
thought. Delving into the essence of human…
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Suitable for all students of Greek theatre and literature, this book examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the…
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This text examines Aristotle’s Rhetoric as a classic treatise on the arts of public speaking and persuasion which played a role in the civic life of Greece. These arts, which…
John Sellars
There is in Athens a rather plain ruin; a simple courtyard lined with fragments of wall. Yet, this little patch of land has a claim to be the most significant…
Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago)
Professor Lear introduces Aristotle’s philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts - selected from the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics and from the biological and logical works. This 1988…
Why has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world? What are his key ideas? What can he still teach us today?
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Christopher Shields
In this excellent introduction, Christopher Shields introduces and assesses the whole of Aristotle’s philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature…
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Aristotle, Philip Freeman
An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle’s complete Poetics — the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding stories
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This is a complete English translation of Aristotle’s key work on science. It presents Aristotle’s thought accurately, while at the same time simplifying and expanding the often crabbed and elliptical…
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Aristotle's classic work on political philosophy.
Politics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. Man is naturally a political animal" is it possible for a state to achieve the ideal…
Greek philosopher and Plato disciple Aristotle (384-322 BCE) radically altered the direction of Western philosophy. He is remembered as one of the greatest philosophers in history. The Roman statesman and…
EVERY STATE is a community of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always act in order to obtain that which they…
RHETORIC the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things as come more or less within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science…
Presents the author’s mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are the…
What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and self-control, friendship and courage, Aristotle’s lectures on ethics are among the…
Aristotl was a Greek philosopher and a student of Plato. He taught Alexander the Great and wrote on many subjects including physics metaphysics poetry theater music logic rhetoric politics government…
Nicomachean Ethics focuses on the importance of habitually behaving virtuously and developing a virtuous character. Aristotle emphasized the importance of context to ethical behavior and the ability of the virtuous…
OUR next task is to study coming-to-be and passing-away. We are to distinguish the causes and to state the definitions of these processes considered in general-as changes predicable uniformly of…
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THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements but also with the principles of…
Tassos Apostolidis
From the artist behind the critically acclaimed, award-winning, New York Times #1 bestselling graphic novel Logicomix comes a graphic novel about the life and legacy of Aristotle, the polymath who…
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This volume presents thirteen newly-commissioned essays that deepen our understanding of Aristotle's key concepts, including living, form, reason, and capacity. It will prove invaluable for researchers in ancient philosophy and…
Presents an account of the author’s life in relation to political events of his time; the character and history of his writings and of the Politics in particular; his overall…
English translation of books 1 though 8 of Aristotle’s Physics. Includes an alternative text of book 7, in the appendix.
Attempts to offer a systematic treatment of ethics and the principles upon which it rests and seeks to give substance and meaning to human action, and to the manner in…
Joe Sach’s edition of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a lucid and useful translation of one of Aristotle’s major works for the student of undergraduate philosophy, as well as for the…
Jec Aristotle Ballou
The go-to reference for riders and trainers aiming to improve equine conditioning in ways that are strategic, engaging, and fair to the horse.
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Aristotle, William Ellis
Aristotle, Armand D'Angour
What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times — the ancient Greeks
This volume examines the influence of medical knowledge on Aristotle's work, in particular, it explores the connections with the Hippocratic writings. By presenting a series of case studies, it offers…
John Boersma
Makes the case that the different stances Aristotle and Socrates take toward politics can be traced to their divergent accounts of friendship.
Giles Pearson
Providing the first systematic interpretation of what Aristotle thinks emotions are and pointing to some philosophical merits of his account, this book addresses, among other things, his view on how…
Aristotle's Parva naturalia is a set of small treatises on sense perception, memory, recollection, sleep, dreams, prophecy by dreams, motion of living beings, length and shortness of life, and maintenance…
Patrice D. Rankine
Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body challenges the normative assumptions of classical texts and modes of creation…