The categories ; On interpretation

Aristotle

Harvard University Press, Jun 15, 1938 - Literary Criticism - 541 pages

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 (367–347); 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; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; 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 Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; 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.

Contents

• Summary of the Principal Themes: 112
• Prior Analytics: 143
• Book I: 199

About the author

Other works by the renowned classical scholar, translator, and literary critic Francis Fergusson include "The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays," "Sallies of the Mind: Essays," "Trope and Allegory: Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare," and "Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the "Purgatorio.
Translator and scholar S. H. Butcher served as editor for the Dover Thift Edition of the "Poetics," as well as for the "Orationes, Volume 1" by Demosthenes. Butcher is also the author of "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art,"

Hugh Tredennick was professor of classics at Royal Holloway College and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at London University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The categories ; On interpretation; Loeb classical library; Volume 1 of Works, Aristotle; Volume 1 of Aristotle in twenty-three volumes, Harold Percy Cooke; Volume 1 of [Aristoteles: Aristotle in twenty-three volumes; Volume 1 of Organon, Aristotle; Volume 1 of Obras, Aristóteles
• Author: Aristotle
• Editor: Hugh Tredennick
• Translated by: Harold Percy Cooke, Hugh Tredennick
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1938
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 25, 2008
• ISBN: 0674993594, 9780674993594
• Length: 541 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical; Logic; Philosophy; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical; Philosophy / Logic; Philosophy, Ancient