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The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates with Aristotle himself, [citation needed] his writings are divisible into two groups: the "exoteric" and the "esoteric". [1]
Pages in category "Works by Aristotle" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Aristotle wrote his works on papyrus scrolls, the common writing medium of that era. [Q] His writings are divisible into two groups: the "exoteric", intended for the public, and the "esoteric", for use within the Lyceum school. [237] [R] [238] Aristotle's "lost" works stray considerably in characterization from the surviving Aristotelian corpus ...
First, the rest of the logical works were finished, [1] by using the translations of Boethius as the basis. [10] Then came the Physics, followed by the Metaphysics (12th century), and Averroes' Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics (13th century), [11] so that all works were translated by the mid-13th century. [7]
This is a list of important publications in philosophy, organized by field. The publications on this list are regarded as important because they have served or are serving as one or more of the following roles: Foundation – A publication whose ideas would go on to be the foundation of a topic or field within philosophy.
Organon Roman copy in marble of a Greek bronze bust of Aristotle by Lysippos, c. 330 BC, with modern alabaster mantle. The Organon (Ancient Greek: Ὄργανον, meaning "instrument, tool, organ") is the standard collection of Aristotle's six works on logical analysis and dialectic.
Aristotle's work on aesthetics consists of the Poetics, Politics (Bk VIII), and Rhetoric. [8] The Poetics was lost to the Western world for a long time. The text was restored to the West in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic version written by Averroes. [9]
The work is brief enough to be divided not into books, as is usual with Aristotle's works, but into fifteen chapters. The Categories places every object of human apprehension under one of ten categories (known to medieval writers as the Latin term praedicamenta). Aristotle intended them to enumerate everything that can be expressed without ...