Economics (English)

by Aristotle

Publisher:

Perseus Digital Library

, 1935

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“Right administration of a household demands in the first place familiarity with the sphere of one’s action⁴; in the second Place, good natural endowments; and in the third, an uprights and industrious way of life. For the lack of any one of these qualifications will involve many a failure in the task one takes in hand.” (source)

“No one, indeed, takes the same care of another’s property as of his own; so that, as far as is possible, [1345a][1] each man ought to attend to his affairs in person.” (source)

“For only a great soul can live in the midst of trouble and wrong without itself committing any base act.” (source)

“For such adornment of the soul as this is in truth ever a thing to be envied” (source)

“Now a virtuous wife is best honored when she sees that her husband is faithful to her, and has no preference for another woman; but before all others loves and trusts her and holds her as his own.” (source)

Product Details

• Title: Economics (English)
• Author: Aristotle
• Publisher: Perseus Digital Library
• Print Publication Date: 1935
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Classics › English--History
• Resource ID: LLS:ARISTOTECONENG
• Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
• Metadata Last Updated: 2021-03-03T20:23:24Z

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384–322 BC) was born in the Greek colony of Stagirus, on the coast of Thrace. When he was 17, Aristotle went to Athens, where he studied under Plato at the Academy for 20 years. Following the death of Plato, and due to Aristotle’s divergence from platonic ideas, Aristotle left the Academy. He was later hired by Philip of Macedonia as a tutor for his son, Alexander (who would grow up to become Alexander the Great). After tutoring Alexander for five years, Aristotle returned to Athens and founded the Lyceum as a rival to Plato’s Academy. Because he was in the practice of walking while he taught, his followers became known as peripatetics, a Greek word meaning “to walk about.”

Known as the father of logic, Aristotle was the first philosopher to develop a system of reasoning. He was also the first to classify human knowledge into specific disciplines (e.g. mathematics, biology, etc.). He is most famous known for rejecting the platonic theory of forms, setting up a dichotomy that has dominated philosophy to this day.