The Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2 The Revised Oxford Translation

About this book

The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revised edition contains the substance of the original Translation, slightly emended in light of recent scholarship; three of the original versions have been replaced by new translations; and a new and enlarged selection of Fragments has been added. The aim of the translation remains the same: to make the surviving works of Aristotle readily accessible to English speaking readers.

Contents

- Acknowledgments
- Note to the reader
- On plants
- On marvellous things heard
- Mechanics
- Problems
- On indivisible lines
- The situations and names of winds
- On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias
- Metaphysics
- Nicomachean ethics
- Magna moralia
- Eudemian ethics
- On virtues and vices
- Politics economics
- Rhetoric
- Rhetoric to Alexander
- Poetics
- Constitution of Athens
- Fragments
- Index of names
- General index

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Biography

Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil in Asia Minor. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–342, he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teenage son Alexander. After Philip’s death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of “Peripatetics”), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander’s death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.

Jonathan Barnes is emeritus fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford, and one of the world's leading scholars of ancient philosophy. His books include Aristotle's Politics and Aristotle's Ethics (both Princeton).