Write a note on Aristotle's works.

Aristotle is said to have written about 150 philosophical treaties. About the 30 that survive touch on an enormous range of philosophical problems from biology and physics to morals to aesthetics to politics. Many, however, are thought to be 'lecture notes' instead of complete, polished treaties, and a few may not be his but of members of the school. There is a record that Aristotle wrote six treaties on various phrases of logic, twenty-six on different subjects in the field of natural sciences, four on ethics and morals, three on art and poetry, one each on metaphysics, economics, history and politics, and four or more on miscellaneous subjects. Aristotle's works can be classified under three headings: (1) dialogues and other works of a popular character; (2) collections of facts and material from scientific treatment; (3) systematic works. Among his writings of a popular nature, the only one, which we possess is the interesting tract On the Polity of the Athenians. It was assumed that Aristotle's writings presented a systematic account of his views but it is not certain as to when a particular work was written by him. 

  The dialogues, especially in Rhetoric, On the Soul and the Protrepticus were written during Aristotle's stay in the Academy.  Aristotle's work, the Organon, the Physics, the De Daele, a part of De Anima and the 'Metaphysics', the Eudemian Ethics and a greater part of the Politics written in the forms of dialogues during the priod between 347 and 335 BC.Rest of the works, notably the Meteorological, the works on psychology and biology, the Constitutions, the Nicomachean Ethics after his son, Micomachus from Herpyllis, the Poetics, and the Politics was carried out the period of his headship of the Lyceum. 

 Aristotle's political theory is found mainly in the Politics, although there are references of his political thought in the Nicomachean Ethics. His Constitutions analyses the system of government on the basis of his study of about 158 constitutions. Notable among them is the Constitution of Athens. Aristotle's Politics, like any other work of his, has come down to us in the form of lecture notes and consists of 47 several essays written at various times about which the scholars have no unanimity. There is a distinction to be made between "The Original Politics" which is Platonist in inspiration and which deals with the construction of the Ideal state or the best possible, and the truly "Aristotelian Politics" which contain a much more empirical grasp of how politics works to the real political world. Eight books of the Politics on the basis of internal development of Aristotle's ideas: the first three books deal with the beginning of preliminary principles and criticism, the fourth and the fifth books deal with the construction of the ideal or the best possible state, the last three books, i.e., sixth to eighth deal with the analysis of the actual states, and also with the causes and cures of revolutions.