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Richard Congreve,Aristotle Aristotle
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
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Richard D. McKirahan
An astounding project of analysis on more than one hundred translations of ancient philosophical texts, this index of words found in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series comprises some 114,000…
Aristotle,Richard Congreve
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
Richard Sorabji
Aristotle’s treatise De Memoria is close to theories of memory in the British empiricist tradition and serves as a good introduction to the topic. This book, first published in 1972…
Dr Alexander Moseley
Divided into Intellectual Bibliography; Critical exposition of Aristotle’s work; and The reception and influence of Aristotle’s work, this title presents an account of the work of the seminal educational thinker…
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Aristotle
Nearly all the works Aristotle (384-322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical…
Richard McKeon
Richard Kraut
This book offers an overview of Aristotle’s conception of well-being, virtue and justice in the ‘Nicomachean Ethics’, and then explores the major themes of Politics: civic-mindedness, slavery, family, property, the…
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics , which equates the ultimate end of human life with happiness, is thought by many readers to argue that this highest goal consists in the largest possible…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
A translation of Aristotle’s Politics, Books VII and VIII , with a commentary. Focusing on philosophical problems and issues, Aristotle raises theoretical and practical political issues still debated today, and…
Richard A.H. King
The series, founded in 1970, publishes works which either combine studies in the history of philosophy with a systematic approach or bring together systematic studies with reconstructions from the history…
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Two treatises on memory from antiquity are Aristotle’s On memory and recollection and Plotinus’ On perception and memory; the latter also wrote at length about memory in his Problems connected…
Originally published in 1909, this book presents a translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric by the renowned British classical scholar and politician Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841-1905). An editorial introduction and supplementary…
Richard McKirahan Et Al
Richard McKirahan systematically examines the Aristotelian discussion of the thought of Parmenides, Zeno and Melissus, shedding light on the more obscure and complex passages. He also complements his study by…
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Aquinas Thomas
The ‘Physics is the initial work in Aristotle’s natural philisophy and, to paraphrase the Philosopher, a little clarity in the beginning magnifies as study continues. From the outset of his…
Edited by Richard McKeon, this book contains an introduction by CD Reeve.
Richard W. Bauman
In Aristotle’s Logic of Education, Richard Bauman argues that Aristotle, in the course of laying out his system of syllogistic inference, intends to guide the way science is taught, rather…
Simplicius
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text, possible missing…
Syrianus attacked Aristotle in his commentary on Books 13 and 14 of the Metaphysics . This is because in Metaphysics 13-14 , Aristotle himself was being polemical towards Platonism. In…
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Richard Gaskin
In his ‘Categories’, Aristotle divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories. This text provides a translation of Simplicius’ commentary on ‘Categories’ and represents over 600 years of…
A selection of papers given at the Institute of Classical Studies during 1996. They cover a variety of new work on the 900 years of philosophy from Aristotle to Simplicius…
This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.
The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle’s ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars. * The…
Aspasius’ commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics is one of the oldest surviving Greek commentary on any of Aristotle’s works, dating to the middle of the second century AD. It offers…
Richard Bodeus
A study in the best tradition of classical scholarship, showing mastery of commentary and scholarship in eight languages, this book argues that the Ethics is integral to a series of…
Argues that Aristotle used the most traditional Greek ideas about the gods to develop and defend his physical, metaphysical, and ethical teachings.
of Cilicia Simplicius
This is a translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotles’ Categories . Falling into two parts, it examines first of all the six categories dealt with in chapter 9 of Categories…
Saint Thomas Aquinas
A translation into modern English of Aquinas unfinished commentary on Aristotle’s Politics, this title follows the Leonine text of Aquinas and reproduces in English those passages of William of Moerbeke’s…
Aristotle’s Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. This text provides a translation of Simplicius’…
This book brings together twenty articles giving a comprehensive view of the work of the Aristotelian commentators. First published in 1990, the collection is now brought up to date with…
Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics elaborates the notions of science and the requirements for the distinctive kind of knowledge scientists possess. This book explores the foundations of Aristotle’s theory, pointing out the…
Aristotle,Richard
Aristotle’s great work translated into English with an index giving Greek, Latin, and English forms of key terms
This text contains translations of three commentaries on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics . Of the three, that by the second-century AD Aspasius is the earliest extant commentary on Aristotle; the second…
Richard Janko
This edition of Tractatus Coislinianus , a summarised treatise on comedy, purporting to be derived from Aristotle’s Poetics , is accompanied by a facing translation, interpretive essays, reconstruction and commentary.
First published in UK in 1980. –Title page verso.
Article From Classical Philology, V41, No. 4, October, 1946.
Article From Ethics, V51, No. 3, April, 1941.
