The Works of Aristotle, Volume I

by Aristotle

Publishers:

Robert P. Gwinn; Encyclopedia Britannica

, 1990

Overview

The makers of Encyclopaedia Britannica bring you one of the Great Books of the Western World. This text captures major ideas, stories, and discoveries that helped shape Western culture.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The most distinctive mark of substance appears to be that, while remaining numerically one and the same, it is capable of admitting contrary qualities.” (Page 8)

“Things are said to be named ‘equivocally’ when, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each.” (Page 5)

“No one of these terms, in and by itself, involves [5] an affirmation; it is by the combination of such terms that positive or negative statements arise. For every assertion must, as is admitted, be either true or false, whereas expressions which are not in any way composite, [10] such as ‘man’, ‘white’, ‘runs’, ‘wins’, cannot be either true or false.” (Page 6)

“Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience [5] and written words are the symbols of spoken words.” (Page 25)

“Those things are called relative, which, being either said to be of something else or related to something else, are explained by reference to that other thing.” (Page 11)

Product Details

• Title: The Works of Aristotle, Volume I
• Author: Aristotle
• Edition: Second Edition
• Series: Great Books of the Western World
• Volume: 7
• Publishers: Robert P. Gwinn, Encyclopedia Britannica
• Print Publication Date: 1990
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Philosophy, Ancient
• ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
• Resource ID: LLS:GBWW07
• Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:11:02Z

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.