Metaphysics / Aristotle.
| Author/creator | Aristotle author. |
| Other author | Armstrong, G. Cyril (George Cyril), 1875-1956 translator. |
| Other author | Tredennick, Hugh translator. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | v.1 |
| Supplemental Content | v.2 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Loeb Classical Library ; 271, 287 Loeb classical library ; 271, 287. ^A467228 |
| Contents | v. I. Books 1-9 / with an English translation by Hugh Tredennick -- v. II. Books 10-14 / with an English translation by Hugh Tredennick ; Oeconomica. Magna Moralia / with an English translation by G. Cyril Armstrong. |
| Abstract | Nearly all the works Aristotle (384-322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other; fragments. Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-47); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343-2 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; Oeconomica (on the good of the family); Virtues and Vices. II. Logical: Categories; On Interpretation; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); On Sophistical Refutations; 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. On Art: Art of Rhetoric and Poetics. VI. Other works including the Athenian Constitution; 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography and index. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language | Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Aristotle. Metaphysics. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1933 9780674992993(v.1) 9780674992818(v.2) |
| ISBN | (v. 1) print version |
| ISBN | (v. 2) print version |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |