Aristotle (384 BC

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Biography

Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.

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Phyllis and Aristotle

Bartholomeus Spranger|Johann Sadeler I

16th century · Engraving

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Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Aristotle

Enea Vico|Anonymous, Italian, mid-16th century|Antonio Lafreri

1553 · Engraving

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Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

1653 · Oil on canvas

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Aquamanile in the Form of Aristotle and Phyllis

late 14th or early 15th century · Bronze; Quaternary copper alloy (approx. 72% copper, approx. 17% zinc,

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Aristotle and Phyllis

Hans Burgkmair

Woodcut; first state of two (Hollstein)

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The Ethics of Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle By Aristotle Introduction by J. A. Smith Contents INTRODUCTION ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS BOOK I BOOK II BOOK III BOOK IV BOOK V BOOK VI ...

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Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten Books

Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Italics have been...

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Politics

BOOK I CHAPTER I As we see that every city is a society, and every society Ed. is established for some good purpose; for an apparent [Bekker 1252a] good is the spring of all human...

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Nicomachean Ethics

BOOK I Chapter I. Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for which reason a common and...

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The Poetics of Aristotle

THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE By Aristotle A Translation By S. H. Butcher [Transcriber's Annotations and Conventions: the translator left intact some Greek words to illustrate a specific point...

1800

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Aristotle on the art of poetry

ON THE ART OF POETRY By Aristotle Translated By Ingram Bywater With A Preface By Gilbert Murray Oxford At The Clarendon Press First Published 1920 Reprinted...

1800

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The Athenian Constitution

THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION by Aristotle Translated by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon Part 1 ...[They were tried] by a court empanelled from among the noble families, and sworn upon...

1800

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The Categories

The Categories By Aristotle Translated by E. M. Edghill Section 1 Part 1 Things are said to be named 'equivocally' when, though they have a common name, the definition...

1800

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Poetics

This audio reading of Poetics is read by Robert Foster Contents # Preface - 00:25:21 # Chapters 1-3 - 00:09:07 # Chapters 4-5 - 00:09:45 # Chapters 6-8 - 00:13:20 # Chapters...

1800

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Politics: A Treatise on Government

A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT By Aristotle Translated From The Greek Of Aristotle By William Ellis, A.M. London & Toronto Published By J M Dent & Sons Ltd. & In New York By E. P. Dutton &....

1800

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