Aristotle
(384 - 322 BCE)
Timothy H. Wilson
Embedded Files
Aristotle holds, along with Plato, the distinction of being the greatest thinker in the Western tradition. While Plato has been the most influential thinker, Aristotle could be said to be the most rigorous and powerful thinker -- creating or otherwise systematizing entire fields of inquiry, including Logic, Biology, Physics, Ethics and Aesthetics. In the Middle Ages, he was known simply as "The Philosopher".
As a result of his philosophical preeminence, there are four Aristotelian works on my list of the list of 101 Greatest Books of the Western Canon:
Nichomachean Ethics
Poetics
Politics
On the Soul
In addition, the following texts are included in my list of 1001 Great Books of the Western Canon:
Metaphysics
Physics
Organon
Rhetoric
Background Lectures
Background Lectures
An analysis of the concept of techne (art or skill) in Aristotle's Physics in relation the order of things as named by Phusis (nature). This notion of techne is then compared to that of Plato as it is understood in the Republic. There techne arises in relation the order of things as named by Dike (justice).
Course Materials
Course Materials
Time and Narrative in Aristotle's Poetics
Lecture notes from a course on "Time and Narrative in Prose Fiction" (Winter 2020)
Reflections on the Great Books
Reflections on the Great Books
External Links
External Links
On-line texts of Plato's Dialogues
“History of Greece” entry at Wikipedia
“Socrates” entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Aristotle” entry at the Interney Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Aristotle” (Christopher Shields) at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
biology (James Lennox)
categories (Paul Studtmann)
ethics (Richard Kraut)
logic (Robin Smith)
metaphysics (S. Marc Cohen)
political theory (Fred Miller)
psychology (Christopher Shields)
rhetoric (Christof Rapp)
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse