ARISTOTLE I: The Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics (Loeb Classical Library)

Aristotle: The facing texts (left) in Classical Greek with "The Categories", "On Interpretation" in the English translations by Harold P. Cooke, & "Prior Analytics" in the English translation by Hugh Tredennick

ISBN 10: 0674993594 / ISBN 13: 9780674993594

Published by Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) & London (UK), 1938

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NEW First Edition (Orig.1938) Unstated Later Printing (c. 2012): NEW mylar-protected jacket * 4.26" x 6.62" x 1.12", 0.42 kg, xii+544 (556) pp * ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHER; ARISTOTLE, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, & writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens & taught there (367?347); subsequently he spent 3 yrs 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 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. * ABOUT THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE: Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, & 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 & Vices. II. LOGICAL: Categories; Analytics (Prior, Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III. PHYSICAL: 26 works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation & destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV. METAPHYSICS: on being as being. V. ART: Rhetoric & 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. * The LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY Edition of Aristotle is in 23 volumes. * ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS: HAROLD P(ERCY) COOKE (d. 1956) lectured at the University of Durham. HUGH TREDENNICK (1899?1982) was Professor of Classics at Royal Holloway College & Dean of the Faculty of Arts at London University.* SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ARISTOTLE I: The Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics (Loeb Classical Library)
• Publisher: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) & London (UK)
• Publication Date: 1938
• Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
• ISBN 10: 0674993594
• ISBN 13: 9780674993594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: Unstated Later Print
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Weight: 0.42 kilograms

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Synopsis

The philosopher’s toolkit.

Aristotle, 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 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.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.

About the Authors

Harold Percy Cooke (d. 1956) lectured at the University of Durham.

Hugh Tredennick (1899–1982) was Professor of Classics at Royal Holloway College and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at London University.