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Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology. |

Aristotle
Collections of works
Works
Logical writings
- Organon
(collected works on logic):
- Categories (or Categoriae)
- On Interpretation (or De Interpretatione)
- Prior Analytics (or Analytica Priora)
- Posterior Analytics (or Analytica Posteriora) (Bouchier) (1901)
- Topics (or Topica)
- On Sophistical Refutations (or De Sophisticis Elenchis)
Physical and scientific writings
- Physics
(or Physica)
- On the Heavens (or De Caelo)
- On Generation and Corruption (or De Generatione et Corruptione)
- Meteorology (or Meteorologica)
- On the Cosmos (or De Mundo, or On the Universe) *
- On the Soul (Bekker 402a Περὶ Ψυχῆς, Latin De Anima)
- On the Vital Principle (Charles Collier translator, 1855)
- De Anima, (J. A. Smith translator, 1931)
- Parva Naturalia or Little Physical Treatises is a collective term for the following seven works rather than a work in its own right.
- On Sense and the Sensible (or De Sensu et Sensibilibus)
- On Memory and Reminiscence (or De Memoria et Reminiscentia)
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness (or De Somno et Vigilia)
- On Dreams (or De Insomniis) *
- On Prophesying by Dreams (or De Divinatione per Somnum)
- On Longevity and Shortness of Life (or De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae)
- On Youth and Old Age, On Breathing and On Life and Death (Bekker 467b Περὶ νεότητος καὶ γήρως, καὶ ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου, καὶ ἀναπνοῆς; Latin De Juventute et Senectute, De Vita et Morte, De Respiratione)
- On Youth and Old Age (or De Juventute et Senectute)
- On Breathing
(or De Respiratione) (G. R. T. Ross) (1908) is only part of "On Youth..."
- On Life and Death (or De Vita et Morte)
- On Breathing
- On Youth and Old Age (or De Juventute et Senectute)
- On Breath (or De Spiritu) *
- History of Animals
(or Historia Animalium, or On the History of Animals, or Description of Animals) (Cresswell) (1883)
- On the Parts of Animals
(or De Partibus Animalium)
- On the Movement of Animals (or De Motu Animalium, or On the Movement of Animals) (Farquharson) (1912)
- On the Progression of Animals (or De Incessu Animalium)
- On the Generation of Animals (or De Generatione Animalium)
- Opusculum (Little works)
- On Colours (or De Coloribus) *
- On Things Heard (or De audibilibus) *
- Physiognomics (or Physiognomonica) *
- On Plants
(or De Plantis) (Forster) (1913)*
- On Marvellous Things Heard (or Mirabilibus Auscultationibus, or On Things Heard) *
- Mechanical Problems (or Mechanica) *
- On Indivisible Lines (or De Lineis Insecabilibus) *
- Situations and Names of Winds (or Ventorum Situs) *
- On Melissus, Xenophanes and Gorgias (or MXG) * The section On Xenophanes starts at 977a13, the section On Gorgias starts at 979a11.
- Problems (or Problemata) *
Metaphysical writings
- Metaphysics (or Metaphysica) (Ross) (1908)
Ethical writings
- Nicomachean Ethics
(or Ethica Nicomachea, or The Ethics) (Chase) (1911)
- Great Ethics (or Magna Moralia) *
- Eudemian Ethics (or Ethica Eudemia)
- Virtues and Vices (or De Virtutibus et Vitiis Libellus, Libellus de virtutibus) *
- Politics (or Politica) (Ellis) (1912)
- Economics (or Oeconomica) *
Aesthetic writings
- Rhetoric (Aristotle) (or Ars Rhetorica, or The Art of Rhetoric or Treatise on Rhetoric)
- Rhetoric to Alexander (or Rhetorica ad Alexandrum)
- The Poetics
- The Poetics (or Ars Poetica), translated by Ingram Bywater (1898)
- The Poetics
translated by S. H. Butcher (1922).
Works outside the Corpus Aristotelicum
- The Constitution of the Athenians (or Athenaion Politeia, or The Athenian Constitution) (Fredrick G. Kenyon) (1921)
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This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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