Aristotle

Aristotle asks, What is existence? How can things continue to exist yet change, and how can we best understand the world we live in? Find out....

In the Nicomachean Ethics (so called after their first editor, Aristotle's son Nicomachus) Aristotle sets out to discover the good life for man....

10 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is widely regarded as one of the most important works in the history of Western philosophy....

Aristotle’s Organon comprises six key essays on logic, initially collected by Theophrastus, his successor as head of the Peripatetic school, and given its final form by Andronicus some three centuries later....

In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process....

In Aristotle's Rhetoric, the philosopher identifies rhetoric as one of the three key elements of philosophy, along with logic and dialectic....

Aristotle considers ‘the principles and causes of change, or movement’ behind both animate and inanimate things....

Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definition and analysis of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts....

Two contrasting reflections by Aristotle which cover very particular ground....

Aristotle's contribution to the sum of wisdom dominates all our philosophy and even provides direction...

Poetics and Rhetoric are the two major works by Aristotle which remain key behavioural handbooks for anyone interested in story, performance, presentation and indeed psychology....

Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most influential works on morality, virtue, and the pursuit of a good life. However, its dense, ancient language makes it difficult for many listeners to grasp.

An inviting and accessible new translation of Aristotle's complete Poetics—the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding stories....

Perhaps the most important book in philosophy after the Allegory of the Cave. Incomparable logic and findings about the things that matter in life with a clear succinct prose touch....

Over two millennia after its compilation, the Politics still offers much to consider with regards to political science....

Aristotle's most complicated and academic work. This is a challenging work for even those who admire his other seven books. Incomparable analysis in language and thought, with a clear, succinct prose touch....

Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle’s most famous work on the subject of ethics and virtue....

The book is one of the most influential ethical treatises of all time. Written in 350 BC, it identifies happiness as life's goal....

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy after the Allegory of the Cave. Incomparable logic and findings about the things that matter in life with a clear, succinct prose touch....