Beskrivning
Beskrivning
First things.Aristotle,great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born atStagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Platoat Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three yearsat the court of a former pupil in Asia Minor. After some time atMitylene, in 343–342 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to betutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip’s death in 336,Aristotle became head of his own school (of “Peripatetics”), the Lyceumat Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander’sdeath in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.Nearlyall the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; thepriceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (someare 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 anddestruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts aboutanimals, 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.VIIFragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy andliterature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics, and metaphysics.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.
