For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced...
Aristotle's life was primarily that of a scholar. However, like the other ancient philosophers, it was not the stereotypical ivory tower existence. His father was court physician...
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With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils and...
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Previously published as Ethics, Aristotle's "The Nicomachean Ethics" addresses the question of how to live well, and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character...
Aristotle's De Anima (On the Soul) is one of the great classics of philosophy. Aristotle examines the nature of the soul-sense-perception, imagination, cognition, emotion, and...
Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is a treatise concerning the theory and practice of the most dynamic form of discourse in Classical Greece. The Rhetoric was a touchstone for all later...
In this classic text, Aristotle extols a variety of virtues valued by the ancient Greeks and their world. Within, Aristotle gives the reader a schema for understanding both ancient...
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An influential work of criticism in Western literary history. Suitable for students of Greek literature and those interested in literary theory today...
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, "The Politics" still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued...
One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a new Penguin Classics translation by Adam Beresford''Right and wrong is a human thing''What does it...
Previously published as "Ethics", Aristotle's "The Nicomachean Ethics" addresses the question of how to live well and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character...
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For many centuries, Aristotle...
'We are looking for the things that enable us to live a noble and happy life... and what prospects decent people will have of acquiring any of them. ' The Eudemian Ethics...
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This new edition of one of the founding texts of moral philosophy combines David Ross...
Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle...
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'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding...
The Nicomachean Ethics is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of...
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In ancient Greece, rhetoric was at the centre of public life, but it was not until Aristotle produced The Art of Rhetoric in the 4th century bc that the subject had a true masterpiece...
Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B. C. ) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates,...
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'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' What does it mean to be...
Rhetoric ARISTOTLE (384 BC - 322 BC), translated by Thomas TAYLOR (1758 - 1835) The Rhetoric was developed by Aristotle during two periods when he was in Athens, the first between...
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In this seminal work of Western philosophy, Aristotle focuses on the use of language in persuasive argument. He identifies practical and aesthetic elements and their proper combination...
Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, "The Metaphysics" is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought, translated...
'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know its nature and substance' For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the...
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