Politics

Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, was born at Stagirus in 384 BCE to Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there from 367–347 BCE. Subsequently, he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor, and during this time he married Pythias, a relation of Hermeias. After some time at Mitylene, he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon in 343–342 BCE to tutor his teen-aged son Alexander.

After Philip's death in 336 BCE, Aristotle became head of his own school, known as the "Peripatetics", at the Lyceum in Athens. Due to anti-Macedonian sentiment following Alexander's death in 323 BCE, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322 BCE.

Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture materials, notes, and memoranda, though some are spurious. They can be categorised as follows:

I. Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Oeconomica (on the good of the family); Virtues and Vices.

II. Logical: Categories; On Interpretation; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); On Sophistical Refutations; Topica.

III. Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including those on astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, and facts about animals, etc.

IV. Metaphysics: on being as being.

V. On Art: Art of Rhetoric and Poetics.

VI. Other works including the Athenian Constitution; and more works of doubtful authorship.

VII. Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature, and treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics.

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