Categories. On Interpretation. Prior Analytics

by Aristotle, Harold Percy Cooke, Hugh Tredennick

Overview

The philosopher’s toolkit.

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil in Asia Minor. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–342 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip’s death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of “Peripatetics”), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander’s death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.

Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows:

I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices.
II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica.
III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc.
IV Metaphysics: on being as being.
V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics.
VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship.
VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics, and metaphysics.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674993594
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1938
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #325
Edition description:	8th printing/1st pub.1938/index
Pages:	560
Sales rank:	554,975
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.20(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Harold Percy Cooke (d. 1956) lectured at the University of Durham.

Hugh Tredennick (1899–1982) was Professor of Classics at Royal Holloway College and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at London University.

Table of Contents

Preface

Bibliographical Addendum

List Of Aristotle's Works

The Categories

Introduction

Summary

Text And Translation

On Interpretation

Summary

Text And Translation

Prior Analytics

Introduction

Select Bibliography

The Traditional Mood-Names

Text And Translation

Book I

Book II

Index