Aristotle

Nicomachean ethics by Aristotle ( Book )
2,386 editions published between 1356 and 2011 in 32 languages and held by 4,859 libraries worldwide
Named for Aristotle's son, Nicomachus, who was the first to edit this work, The Nicomachean Ethics plays a prominent role in defining Aristotelian ethics. In the ten books of this work, Aristotle explains the good life for man: the life of happiness. For Aristotle, happiness exists when the soul is in accordance with virtue. Virtue exists in a deliberate choice of actions that take a middle course between excess and deficiency; this is the famous doctrine of the "golden mean." Courage, for example, is the mean between cowardice and rashness. Justice is the mean between a man's getting more or less than his due. The supreme happiness, according to Aristotle, is to be found in a life of philosophical contemplation or, at least, in a virtuous life of political activity and public munificence.

The politics by Aristotle ( Book )
1,791 editions published between 1376 and 2010 in 38 languages and held by 4,245 libraries worldwide
A touchstone in Western debates about society and government, the Politics is Aristotle's classic work on the nature of political community. Here, he discusses the merits and defects of various regimes or ways of organizing political community - democracy in particular - and in the process examines such subjects as slavery, economics, the family, citizenship, justice, and revolution.

Poetics by Aristotle ( Book )
1,950 editions published between 1498 and 2011 in 38 languages and held by 3,710 libraries worldwide
This volume brings together the three most original and influential ancient Greek treatises on literature. Artistotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen Halliwell makes this seminal work newly accessible with a reliable text and a translation that is both accurate and readable. His authoritative introduction traces the work's debt to earlier theorists (especially Plato), its distinctive argument, and the reasons behind its enduring relevance. The essay On the Sublime, usually attributed to "Longinus" (identity uncertain), was probably composed in the first century A.D.; its subject is the appreciation of greatness ("the sublime") in writing, with analysis of illustrative passages ranging from Homer and Sappho to Plato and Genesis. In this edition, Donald Russell has judiciously revised and newly annotated the text and translation by W. Hamilton Fyfe and provides a new introduction. The treatise On Style, ascribed to an (again unidentifiable) Demetrius, was perhaps composed during the second century B.C. It seems to reflect the theoretical energy of Hellenistic rhetorical works now lost, and is notable particularly for its theory and analysis of four distinct styles (grand, elegant, plain, and forceful). Doreen Innes' fresh rendering of the work is based on the earlier Loeb translation by W. Rhys Roberts. Her new introduction and notes represent the latest scholarship.

Metaphysics by Aristotle ( Book )
1,295 editions published between 1473 and 2010 in 29 languages and held by 3,401 libraries worldwide
"Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343-2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged 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. Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows: I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV Metaphysics: on being as being. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics." -- Publisher description.

Rhetoric by Aristotle ( Book )
1,191 editions published between 1481 and 2010 in 26 languages and held by 3,275 libraries worldwide
Poetics set up standards of literary excellence. Rhetoric established standards of effective public speaking.

The basic works of Aristotle by Aristotle ( Book )
25 editions published between 1914 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,907 libraries worldwide
Presents English translations of the basic writings of ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, including works on logic, physics, the soul, the history of animals, and others.

Physics by Aristotle ( Book )
841 editions published between 1300 and 2008 in 15 languages and held by 2,472 libraries worldwide
S'attachant à l'étude des êtres qui ont en eux-mêmes leur principe de mouvement, Aristote se livre à une analyse détaillée des différents types de mouvements et établit un système de la nature.

De anima by Aristotle ( Book )
847 editions published between 1472 and 2011 in 22 languages and held by 2,428 libraries worldwide
Le "Traité de l'âme" est l'un des traités du corpus aristotélicien qui présente le plus d'unité et c'est ce qui explique son influence au cours de l'histoire. Aux yeux d'Aristote, l'âme est d'abord la vie ou principe de vie. Retrace l'histoire du texte, ses grandes lectures et les interprétations auxquelles il a donné lieu.

Introduction to Aristotle by Aristotle ( Book )
18 editions published between 1947 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,397 libraries worldwide

The Athenian constitution ; The Eudemian ethics ; On virtues and vices by Aristotle ( Book )
711 editions published between 1757 and 2009 in 22 languages and held by 2,295 libraries worldwide