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ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Aristotle / Hett, W. S., PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press, Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>er, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the song>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g> of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia ong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>g>Minorong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>g> and at this time married Pythias, ong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>e of Hermeias's relationg>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>s. After some time at Mitylene, in he was appointed by King Philip of Macedong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g> to be tutor of his teen-aged song>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g> Alexander. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of 'Peripatetics'), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>ian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. Nearly all the ong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>g>worksong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>g> Aristotle prepared for publicationg>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g> are lost; the priceless ong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>es 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; Econg>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>omics (ong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g> the good of the family); ong>onong>g>ong>Onong>ong>onong>g> Virtues and Vices. II "Logical": Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretationg>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>; Refutationg>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>s used by Sophists; Topica. III "Physical": Twenty-six ong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>g>worksong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>g> (some suspect) including astrong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>omy, generationg>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g> and destructiong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV "Metaphysics": ong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g> being as being. V "Art": Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other ong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>g>worksong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>g> including the Cong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>stitutiong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g> of Athens; more ong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>g>worksong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>g> also of doubtful authorship. VII Fragments of various ong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>g>worksong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g>g> such as dialogues ong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g> philosophy and literature; and of treatises ong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g> rhetoric, politics and metaphysics. The Loeb Classical Library editiong>onong>g>ong>onong>ong>onong>g> of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.