Aristotle
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Stageira, Chalcidice, Greece
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Philosophy, Nonfiction, Science
influences
Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus, Democritus
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Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.
Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. He was the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics. Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, alth...more
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The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, Hugh Tredennick , J.A.K. Thomson , Jonathan Barnes avg rating 3.84 — 1,269 ratings — published 1 78 editions |
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Poetics by Aristotle, Malcolm Heath avg rating 3.71 — 1,081 ratings — published 335 56 editions |
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Politics by Aristotle avg rating 3.64 — 658 ratings — published 350 46 editions |
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Metaphysics by Aristotle, Joe Sachs avg rating 3.80 — 298 ratings — published 1924 30 editions |
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The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle avg rating 3.70 — 208 ratings — published 1959 30 editions |
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The Basic Works of Aristotle by Aristotle, Richard Peter McKeon avg rating 4.03 — 111 ratings — published 1941 2 editions |
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Physics by Aristotle avg rating 3.57 — 122 ratings — published 1854 23 editions |
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The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Rhys Roberts , Ingram Bywater avg rating 3.97 — 105 ratings — published 1954 5 editions |
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The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation (2 Volume Set; Bollingen Series, Vol. LXXI, No. 2) by Aristotle avg rating 4.40 — 88 ratings — published 1984 7 editions |
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De Anima by Aristotle avg rating 3.86 — 96 ratings — published 1957 20 editions |
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
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