Aristotle

Biographical note

Aristotle (or Aristoteles) was a Greek philosopher who lived from 384 to 322 BC. Along with Plato, he is often considered to be one of the two most influential philosophers in Western thought.

Works

  • Organon (collected works on logic):
    • Categories (or Categoriae) [ read | download ]
      translated by E. M. Edghill
    • On Interpretation (or De Interpretatione) [ read | download ]
      translated by E. M. Edghill
    • Prior Analytics (or Analytica Priora) [ read | download ]
      translated by A. J. Jenkinson
    • Posterior Analytics (or Analytica Posteriora) [ read | download ]
      translated by G. R. G. Mure
    • Topics (or Topica) [ read | download ]
      translated by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge
    • On Sophistical Refutations (or De Sophisticis Elenchis) [ read | download ]
      translated by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge
  • Physical and scientific writings
    • Physics (or Physica) [ read | download ]
      translated by R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye
    • On the Heavens (or De Caelo) [ read | download ]
      translated by J. L. Stocks
    • On Generation and Corruption (or De Generatione et Corruptione) [ read | download ]
      translated by H. H. Joachim
    • Meteorology (or Meteorologica) [ read | download ]
      translated by E. W. Webster
    • On the Universe (or De Mundo, or On the Cosmos) *
    • On the Soul (or De Anima) [ read | download ]
      translated by J. A. Smith
    • Parva Naturalia (or Little Physical Treatises):
      • On sense and the sensible (or De Sensu et Sensibilibus) [ read | download ]
        translated by J. I. Beare
      • On memory and reminiscence (or De Memoria et Reminiscentia) [ read | download ]
        translated by J. I. Beare
      • On sleep and sleeplessness (or De Somno et Vigilia) [ read | download ]
        translated by J. I. Beare
      • On Dreams (or De Insomniis) [ read | download ]
        translated by J. I. Beare
      • On prophesying by dreams (or De Divinatione per Somnum) [ read | download ]
        translated by J. I. Beare
      • On longevity and shortness of life (or De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae) [ read | download ]
        translated by G. R. T. Ross
      • On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration (or De Juventute et Senectute, De Vita et Morte, De Respiratione) [ read | download ]
        translated by G. R. T. Ross
    • On Breath (or De Spiritu) *
    • The History of Animals (or Historia Animalium, or Description of Animals) [ read | download ]
      translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
    • On the parts of Animals (or De Partibus Animalium) [ read | download ]
      translated by William Ogle
    • On the motion of animals (or De Motu Animalium) [ read | download ]
      translated by A. S. L. Farquharson
    • On the Gait of Animals (or De Incessu Animalium) [ read | download ]
      translated by A. S. L. Farquharson
    • On the Generation of Animals (or De Generatione Animalium) [ read | download ]
      translated by Arthur Platt
    • On Colors (or De Coloribus) *
    • On Things Heard (or De audibilibus) *
    • Physiognomics (or Physiognomonica) *
    • On Plants (or De Plantis) *
    • On Marvellous Things Heard (or De mirabilibus auscultationibus) *
    • Mechanics (or Mechanica or Mechanical Problems) *
    • Problems (or Problemata)
    • On Indivisible Lines (or De Lineis Insecabilibus) *
    • The Situations and Names of Winds (or Ventorum Situs) *
    • On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias (or MXG) *
  • Metaphysics (or Metaphysica) [ read | download ]
    translated by W. D. Ross
  • Ethical writings
    • Nicomachean Ethics (or Ethica Nicomachea, or The Ethics) [ read | download ]
      translated by W. D. Ross
    • Magna Moralia (or Great Ethics) *
    • Eudemian Ethics (or Ethica Eudemia)
    • On Virtues and Vices (or De Virtutibus et Vitiis Libellus, Libellus de virtutibus) *
    • Politics (or Politica) [ read | download ]
      translated by Benjamin Jowett
    • Economics (or Oeconomica)
  • Aesthetic writings
    • Rhetoric (or Ars Rhetorica, or The Art of Rhetoric or Treatise on Rhetoric) [ read | download ]
      translated by W. Rhys Roberts
    • Rhetoric to Alexander (or Rhetorica ad Alexandrum) *
    • Poetics (or Ars Poetica) [ read | download ]
      translated by S. H. Butcher
  • The Athenian Constitution (or Athenaion Politeia) [ read | download ]
    translated by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon

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