Bøker av Aristotle

A new translation of Aristotle's classic work on the natural sciences.

In a single volume intended for philosophy students of all levels and their teachers, this reader aims to provides modern, accurate translations of the texts necessary for a study of most aspects of Aristotle's philosophy.

The eighth book of Aristotle's "Physics" is the culmination of his theory of nature. He discusses not just physics, but the origins of the universe and the metaphysical foundations of cosmology and physical science. It includes his argument for the existence of a first "unmoved mover".

A translation of Aristotle's "Politics, Books VII and VIII", with a commentary. Focusing on philosophical problems and issues, Aristotle raises theoretical and practical political issues still debated today, and details the ideal civic community, as a model for actual political systems.

Aristotle discusses many political issues in "Politics", theoretical and practical - revolution and reform, democracy and tyranny, and freedom and equality. A commentary is provided which, though primarily philosophical, also supplies a key to Aristotle's historical references.

A new translation of Aristotle's classic work on the natural sciences.

Aristotle sets out his philosophy of biology in "De Partibus Animalium I". He applies his hylomorphic philosophy to the problem of animal reproduction in "De Generatione Animalium I. The notes in this work interpret Aristotle's arguments and discuss his views on major issues such as natural teleology.

De Generatione et Corruptione

This volume contains a close translation, suitable for students without a knowledge of Greek, together with a philosophical commentary. It contains some of Aristotle's most influential thoughts in logic, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of science.

Addresses the question of how to live well, and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system. In this title, the author sets out to examine the nature of happiness. It discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, and the different forms of friendship.

Aristotle Categoriae et Liber de Interpretatione

Aristotle Ethica Nicomachea

Richard Janko's acclaimed translation of Aristotle's Poetics is accompanied by the most comprehensive commentary available in English that does not presume knowledge of the original Greek. Two other unique features are Janko's translations with notes of both the Tractatus Coislinianus , which is argued to be a summary of the lost second book of the Poetics, and fragments of Aristotle's dialogue On Poets, including recently discovered texts about catharsis, which appear in English for the first time.

A translation of the third book (Beta) of Metaphysics, with related chapters from the eleventh book (Kappa). The introduction and commentary give detailed guidance to the texts, in which Aristotle sets out the main problems of metaphysics or "first philosophy" and assesses possible solutions.

Aristotle De Arte Poetica

Aristotle Metaphysica

Edited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle's works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon's The Basic Works of Aristotle-constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years-has long been considered the best available one-volume Aristotle. Appearing in paperback at long last, this edition includes selections from the Organon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, Rhetoric, among others, and On the Soul, On Generation and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics in their entirety.

In a new English translation by Christopher Rowe, this great classic of moral philosophy by Aristotle is accompanied here by an extended introduction and detailed line-by-line commentary by Sarah Broadie. Assuming no knowledge of Greek, her approach should prove useful for students reading the text for the first time.

This volume contains a translation of three of the eight books of "Eudemian Ethics", together with a philosophical commentary on them from a contemporary point of view.

This reissue of Richard Robinson's classic volume on Aristotle's Politics contains his clear and accurate translation of, and commentary on, Books III and IV, brought up to date by a supplementary essay and new bibliography by David Keyt. This is the ideal companion to study these important books of a classic text in the history of political philosophy.

In books VIII and IX of his work on moral philosophy, Aristotle gives perhaps the most famous of all philosophical discussions of friendship. Michael Pakaluk presents a systematic study of these books, showing how important Aristotle's treatment of friendship is to his ethics as a whole.