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De Anima (On the Soul) by Aristotle Aristotle, Aristotle
Category: Classics
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 temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the eme ...Show more
How to Flourish An Ancient Guide to Living Well by Aristotle
Category: Gift Books | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing--the Nicomachean Ethics--in a lively new abridged translation Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a carefully a ...Show more
How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking by Aristotle
Category: Gift Books | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE, they changed the world with astonishing inventions — democracy, the alphabet, philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematical proof, rational medicine, coins, architectural canons, dra ...Show more
How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers by Aristotle
Category: Gift Books | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Aristotle’s Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of stories—whether novels, short fiction, plays, screenplays, or nonfiction. Aristotle was the first to identify the keys to plot, character, audience perception, tragic pleasure, and dozens of other critical points of g ...Show more
Metaphysics by Aristotle
Category: Science
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, Plato and Aristotle were among the first to refine philosophical thought, and Socrates is credited with devising the Soc ...Show more
Physics. Writings on Natural Philosophy (Concise Edition) by ARISTOTLE
Category: Science | Series: Foundations Ser.
Aristotle's great work that gave the foundations to Galileo, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein's much later discoveries about the the natural laws of life and the universe. In the philosophical language of Aristotle and the Greeks of Antiquity Physics roughly translates as 'the order of nature', covering ...Show more
Posterior Analytics by Aristotle
Category: Science
Aristotle was one of history's greatest philosophers and one of Ancient Greece's seminal thinkers, a student of Plato's and a tutor of Alexander the Great's. Aristotle's Posterior Analytics is a text that deals with demonstration, definition, and scientific knowledge.
The Metaphysics by Aristotle
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"All men by nature are actuated with the desire of knowledge," declared Aristotle. The philosopher's works are foundational to the history of science, and his treatise on metaphysics, or "first philosophy," is divided into sections of previous philosophical thought and theories; a refutation of skeptici ...Show more
The Politics by Aristotle
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish ...Show more
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