Aristotle (Author) - The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation (2 Volume Set)

Aristotle (384 BC 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a studentof Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings covermany subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater,music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, andzoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher),Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Westernphilosophy. Aristotle's writings constitute a first at creating acomprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing moralityand aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shapedmedieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into theRenaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonianphysics. In the biological sciences, some of his observations wereconfirmed to be accurate only in the nineteenth century. His workscontain the earliest known formal study of logic, which wasincorporated in the late nineteenth century into modern formallogic. In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence onphilosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewishtraditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influenceChristian theology, especially Eastern Orthodox theology, and thescholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. His ethics, thoughalways influential, gained renewed interest with the modern adventof virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue tobe the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotlewrote many elegant treatises and dialogues (Cicero described hisliterary style as "a river of gold"), it is thought that themajority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third ofthe original works have survived. Despite the far-reaching appealthat Aristotle's works have traditionally enjoyed, today modernscholarship questions a substantial portion of the Aristoteliancorpus as authentically Aristotle's own.

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