The Complete Aristotle

9537 Pages·2011·14.21 MB·English

by  Aristotle

The Complete Aristotle
Aristotle
Published: -322
Categorie(s): Non-Fiction, Human Science,
Philosophy
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About Aristotle:
Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a
Greek philosopher, a student of Plato
and teacher of Alexander the Great. His
writings cover many subjects, including
physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater,
music, logic, rhetoric, politics,
government, ethics, biology, and
zoology. Together with Plato and
Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is
one of the most important founding
figures in Western philosophy.
Aristotle's writings constitute a first at
creating a comprehensive system of
Western philosophy, encompassing
morality and aesthetics, logic and
science, politics and metaphysics.
Aristotle's views on the physical
sciences profoundly shaped medieval
scholarship, and their influence extended
well into the Renaissance, although they
were ultimately replaced by Newtonian
physics. In the biological sciences, some
of his observations were confirmed to
be accurate only in the nineteenth
century. His works contain the earliest
known formal study of logic, which was
incorporated in the late nineteenth
century into modern formal logic. In
metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a
profound influence on philosophical and
theological thinking in the Islamic and
Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages,
and it continues to influence Christian
theology, especially Eastern Orthodox
theology, and the scholastic tradition of
the Catholic Church. His ethics, though
always influential, gained renewed
interest with the modern advent of virtue
ethics. All aspects of Aristotle's
philosophy continue to be the object of
active academic study today. Though
Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises
and dialogues (Cicero described his
literary style as "a river of gold"), it is
thought that the majority of his writings
are now lost and only about one-third of
the original works have survived.
Despite the far-reaching appeal that
Aristotle's works have traditionally
enjoyed, today modern scholarship
questions a substantial portion of the
Aristotelian corpus as authentically
Aristotle's own.
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