The Basic Works of Aristotle

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Edited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve   Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle—constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years—has long been considered the best available one-volume Aristotle. Appearing in paperback at long last, this edition includes selections from the Organon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, Rhetoric, among others, and On the Soul, On Generation and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics in their entirety. Title Page Copyright Biographical Note Contents How to Use Chapter and Footnote Links Preface by Richard McKeon Introduction by C.D.C. Reeve Organon (The collection of Aristotle’s logical treatises) Categoriae (Categories) (complete) De Interpretatione (On Interpretation) (complete) Analytica Priora (Prior Analytics) (Book I, Chapters 1–7, 13, 23–31; Book II, Chapters 16–27) Analytica Posteriora (Posterior Analytics) (complete) Topica (Topics) (Book I; Books II–VIII omitted) De Sophisticis Elenchis (On Sophistical Refutations) (Chapters 1–3 and 34; [Chapters 4–33 omitted]) Physica (Physics) (complete) De Caelo (On the Heavens) (Books I, II [Chapters 13 and 14], III and IV; [Chapters 1–12 of Book II omitted]) De Generatione Et Corruptione (On Generation and Corruption) (complete) De Anima (On the Soul) (complete) Parva Naturalia (The Short Physical Treatises) De Memoria et Reminiscentia (On Memory and Reminiscence) (complete) De Somniis (On Dreams) (complete) De Divinatione Per Somnum (On Prophesying by Dreams) (complete) Historia Animalium (The History of Animals) (Book V, Chapter 1; Book VIII, Chapter 1; Book IX, Chapter 1) De Partibus Animalium (On the Parts of Animals) (Book I, Chapters 1–5; Book II, Chapter 1) De Generatione Animalium (On the Generation of Animals) (Book I, Chapters 1, 17–18, 20–23) Metaphysica (Metaphysics) (complete) Ethica Nicomachea (Nicomachean Ethics) (complete) Politica (Politics) (complete) Rhetorica (Rhetoric) (Books I and II complete; Book III, Chapters 1, 13–19 [Chapters 2–12 omitted]) De Poetica (Poetics) (complete)