Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); 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. 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. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of 'Peripatetics'), the Lyceum at Athens. 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). They can be categorized as follows: I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV Metaphysics: on being as being. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship. VII 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.

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Read More by Aristotle:

• Aristotle, I, Categories. On Interpretation. Prior Analytics
• Aristotle, II, Posterior Analytics. Topica
• Aristotle, III, On Sophistical Refutations. On Coming-to-be and Passing Away. On the Cosmos
• Aristotle, IV, The Physics: Books 1-4
• Aristotle, V, The Physics: Books 5-8
• Aristotle, VI, On the Heavens
• Aristotle, VII, Meteorologica
• Aristotle, VIII, On the Soul. Parva Naturalia. On Breath
• Aristotle, IX, History of Animals: Books 1-3
• Aristotle, X, History of Animals: Books 4-6
• Aristotle, XI, History of Animals: Books 7-10
• Aristotle, XII, Parts of Animals. Movement of Animals. Progression of Animals
• Aristotle, XIII, Generation of Animals
• Aristotle, XIV, Minor Works: On Colours. On Things Heard. Physiognomics. On Plants. On Marvellous Things Heard. Mechanical Problems. On Indivisible Lines. The Situations and Names of Winds. On Melissus, Xenophanes, Gorgias
• Aristotle, XVI, Problems: Books 22-38. Rhetorica ad Alexandrum
• Aristotle, XVII, Metaphysics: Books 1-9
• Aristotle, XVIII, Metaphysics: Books 10-14. Oeconomica. Magna Moralia
• Aristotle, XIX, Nicomachean Ethics
• Aristotle, XX, Athenian Constitution. Eudemian Ethics. Virtues and Vices
• Aristotle, XXI, Politics
• Aristotle, XXII, The "Art" of Rhetoric
• Aristotle, XXIII, Poetics. On the Sublime. On Style

Read More by W. S. Hett:

• Aristotle, VIII, On the Soul. Parva Naturalia. On Breath
• Aristotle, XIV, Minor Works: On Colours. On Things Heard. Physiognomics. On Plants. On Marvellous Things Heard. Mechanical Problems. On Indivisible Lines. The Situations and Names of Winds. On Melissus, Xenophanes, Gorgias
• Aristotle, XVI, Problems: Books 22-38. Rhetorica ad Alexandrum