Aristotle

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born

Stageira, Chalcidice, Greece

gender

male

website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/

genre

Philosophy, Science, Nonfiction

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, although they were ultimately re...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 20,850 ratings · 803 reviews · 377 distinct works

	The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, J.A.K. Thomson (Translator), Jonathan Barnes (Introduction) 3.83 avg rating — 6,176 ratings — published -350 — 207 editions	My rating:
	Politics by Aristotle, Dover Thrift Editions 3.76 avg rating — 4,513 ratings — published -350 — 80 editions	My rating:
	Poetics by Aristotle, Malcolm Heath (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 3,339 ratings — published -335 — 188 editions	My rating:
	Metaphysics by Aristotle, Joe Sachs 3.87 avg rating — 2,009 ratings — published 1981 — 75 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle, H.C. Lawson-Tancred (Translalor, Introduction, Notes), Hugh Lawson-Tancred (Annotations) 3.73 avg rating — 793 ratings — published -322 — 71 editions	My rating:
	De Anima by Aristotle, Hugh Lawson-Tancred (translator) 3.84 avg rating — 636 ratings — published -322 — 47 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Works of Aristotle 1: Revised Oxford Translation by Aristotle, Jonathan Barnes (editor) 4.34 avg rating — 537 ratings — published 1954 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Physics by Aristotle, David Bostock (Editor), Robin Waterfield (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 502 ratings — published -323 — 49 editions	My rating:
	The Basic Works of Aristotle by Aristotle, Richard Peter McKeon (Editor), C.D.C. Reeve (Contributor - Introduction) 4.03 avg rating — 407 ratings — published -322 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle, W. Rhys Roberts (translator), Ingram Bywater (translator) 3.89 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 1954 — 15 editions	My rating:

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Series by Aristotle

Ηθικά Νικομάχεια (1 book)
by Aristotle, J.A.K. Thomson (Translator), Jonathan Barnes (Introduction), Hugh Tredennick (Editor)

3.83 avg rating — 6,171 ratings

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (1 book)
by Aristotle, Stephen Everson (Editor), Raymond Geuss (Editor)

3.76 avg rating — 108 ratings

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Quotes by Aristotle

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

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“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle

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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics

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