Author:Aristotle

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Aristotle
(384 BCE – 322 BCE)

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(Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs); Greek philosopher; student of Plato and teacher of Theophrastus and Alexander the Great; wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology

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Collections of works

Works of Aristotle
Works, trans. by Thomas Taylor (1812)

Works

The asterisk (*) denotes that these works are considered spurious.

Logical writings

Organon (collected works on logic):
- Organon (Owen); unannotated Aristotelian texts: ; annotated texts and supplements: (transcription project)
- Organon, trans. by Alan George Sumner Gibson (1877)
Same taken separately (Owen's works; unannotated unless specified):
- Categories (or Categoriae)
  - Categories (Owen) (trans. Octavius Freire Owen) (1853) (transcription project)
  - Categories trans. Edghill
- On Interpretation (trans. O. F. Owen) (1853) (or De Interpretatione) (transcription project)
- Prior Analytics (trans. O. F. Owen) (1853) (or Analytica Priora) (transcription project)
- Posterior Analytics (or Analytica Posteriora)
  - Posterior Analytics (Owen) (trans. O. F. Owen) (1853) (transcription project)
  - Posterior Analytics, trans. by Edward Poste (1850)
  - Posterior Analytics (Bouchier) (trans. E. S. Bouchier) (1901)
  - Posterior Analytics
- Topics (trans. O. F. Owen) (1853) (or Topica) (transcription project)
  - Topics, trans. by Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge
- On Sophistical Refutations (or De Sophisticis Elenchis)
  - The Sophistical Elenchi (trans. O. F. Owen) (1853) (transcription project)
  - On Sophistical Refutations
  - Aristotle on Fallacies, trans. by Edward Poste (1866)

Physical and scientific writings

Physics (Aristotle) (or Physica)
On the Heavens (or De Caelo)
- On the Heavens, trans. by J. L. Stocks (1922)
On Generation and Corruption (or De Generatione et Corruptione)
- On Generation and Corruption, trans. by Harold H. Joachim (1922)
Meteorology (or Meteorologica)
- Meteorologica, trans. by Anonymous (1528)
On the Cosmos (or De Mundo, or On the Universe) *
- On the Universe (Forster)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2026
On the Soul (Bekker 402a; Greek Περὶ ψυχῆς; Latin De Anima)
- On the Vital Principle (trans. Charles Collier) (1855)
- On the Vital Principle, trans. by Isador Kalisch (1885)
- On the Soul, trans. by J. A. Smith
- Aristotle's Psychology - (trans. Edwin Wallace) (1882)
- Aristotle's De Anima - (trans. Robert Drew Hicks (1907)
- On the Soul (Smith)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2026
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 (trans. J. I. Beare) (1908) (or De Sensu et Sensibilibus)
- On Memory and Reminiscence (trans. J. I. Beare) (1908) (or De Memoria et Reminiscentia)
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness (trans. J. I. Beare) (1908) (or De Somno et Vigilia)
- On Dreams (trans. J. I. Beare) (1908) (or De Insomniis)
- On Prophesying by Dreams (trans. J. I. Beare) (1908) (or De Divinatione per Somnum)
- On Longevity and Shortness of Life (trans. G. R. T. Ross) (1908) (or De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae)
- On Youth and Old Age, On Breathing and On Life and Death (trans. G. R. T. Ross) (1908) (Bekker 467b; Greek 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 Life and Death (or De Vita et Morte)
  - On Breathing (or De Respiratione)
On Breath (or De Spiritu) *
History of Animals (or Historia Animalium, or On the History of Animals, or Description of Animals)
- History of Animals (Cresswell) (trans. Richard Cresswell) (1883). (transcription project)
- History of Animals (Thompson) (trans. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson) (1910) in the Works of Aristotle
On the Parts of Animals (trans. William Ogle) (1912) (or De Partibus Animalium)
- [[Parts of Animals (Forster
On the Movement of Animals (trans. A. S. L. Farquharson) (1912) (or De Motu Animalium, or On the Movement of Animals)
On the Progression of Animals (trans. A. S. L. Farquharson) (1912) (or De Incessu Animalium)
On the Generation of Animals (trans. Arthur Platt) (1912) (or De Generatione Animalium)
Opusculum (Little works)
- On Colours (or De Coloribus) *
- On Things Heard (or De audibilibus) *
- Physiognomics (or Physiognomonica) *
- On Plants (trans. E. S. Forster) (1913) (or De Plantis) *
- 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) *
- Problems (or Problemata)
  - Problems, trans. by Author:Anonymous

Metaphysical writings

Metaphysics (trans. W. D. Ross) (1908) (or Metaphysica) (transcription project)
- Metaphysics, trans. by John Henry MacMahon (1857)
- Metaphysics, trans. by James H. M'Mahon (1891)
- Metaphysics, trans. by F. G. Selby (1901)
- Metaphysics, trans. by A. E. Taylor (1907)
- Metaphysics, trans. by Cambridge Graduate (1888)

Ethical writings

Nicomachean Ethics (or Ethica Nicomachea, or The Ethics)
- Nicomachean Ethics, trans. by John Wilkinson (1547)
- Nicomachean Ethics, trans. by Anonymous (1819)
- Ethics, trans. by John Gillies (1823)
- Nicomachean Ethics, trans. by F. A. Paley (1872)
- Nicomachean Ethics, trans. by Henry Jackson (1879)
- Nicomachean Ethics, revised by Thomas William Rolleston (1890)
- Nicomachean Ethics, trans. by J. E. C. Welldon (1892)

Nicomachean Ethics (Chase) (trans. D. P. Chase) (1911) (transcription project)

- Ethics, trans. by J. A. Smith
- Nicomachean Ethics, trans. by F. H. Peters (1916)

Nicomachean Ethics (Ross 1925)

- Ethics, trans. by Alexander Grant (1866)
Great Ethics (or Magna Moralia) *
Eudemian Ethics (trans. Joseph Solomon) (1915) (or Ethica Eudemia)
Virtues and Vices (or De Virtutibus et Vitiis Libellus, Libellus de virtutibus) *
Politics (or Politica)
- Politics, trans. by Anonymous (1598)
- Politiques, trans. by Anonymous (1704)
- Politics, trans. by John Gillies (1823)
- Politics, trans. by Edward Walford (1853)
- Politics, trans. by J. E. C. Welldon (1893)
- Politics, trans. by Robert Drew Hicks (1894)

Politics (Ellis) (trans. William Ellis) (1912)
Politics (Jowett) (trans. Benjamin Jowett) (1921) (transcription project) in the Works of Aristotle

Economics (or Oeconomica) *
- Economics, trans. by Edward Walford (1853)

Aesthetic writings

Rhetoric (or Ars Rhetorica, or The Art of Rhetoric or Treatise on Rhetoric)
- Aristotle's Rhetoric, trans. by Anonymous (1686)
- Rhetoric (Roberts)
- Rhetoric, trans. by John Gillies (1823)
- Rhetoric (Freese) (trans. J. H. Freese) (1924)
- Rhetoric (Crimmin) (trans. Daniel Michael Crimmin) (1811) (transcription project)
- Rhetoric, trans. by J. E. C. Welldon (1896)
- Rhetoric, trans. by John Henry Freese (1926)
Rhetoric to Alexander (or Rhetorica ad Alexandrum)*
The Poetics (or Ars Poetica)
- Aristotle's Art of Poetry, trans. by Anonymous (1705)
- Poetics, trans. by Henry James Pye (1788)
- Treatise on Poetyr, trans. by Thomas Twining (1812)
- Poetics, trans. by Anonymous (1819)
- The Poetics (trans. Ingram Bywater) (1898) (transcription project)
- Poetics, trans. by D. S. Margoliouth (1911)
- Aristotle on the Art of poetry, trans. by Lane Cooper (1913)
- The Poetics (trans. S. H. Butcher) (1922) Aristotelian texts: . Analysis (table of contents): (transcription project)

Works outside the Corpus Aristotelicum

The Athenian Constitution, trans. by Edward Poste (1891)
- The Athenian Constitution, trans. by John Edwin Sandys (1893)
The Constitution of the Athenians (trans. Fredrick G. Kenyon) (1921) (The Athenian Constitution; Greek Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία)

Selections/Extracts

On Education, being extracts from the Ethics and Politics, trans. by John Burnet (1903)

Works about Aristotle and his philosophy

Isagoge by Porphyry
Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
Aristotle (1898), by Alexander Grant
"Aristotle," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"Aristotle," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
"Aristotle," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Aristotle," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
"Aristotle," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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