Collection The classical authors
Aristotle
Greek philosopher from Stagira, 384-322 BC
What has come down to us are the teaching texts of the Lyceum, organized in the first century BC by Andronicus of Rhodes. The dialogues that Aristotle published have been lost, apart from fragments.
Works
Logic (Organon)
- Categories (Categoriae)
- On Interpretation (De interpretatione)
- Posterior Analytics (Analytica posteriora)
- Prior Analytics (Analytica priora)
- Sophistical Refutations (De sophisticis elenchis)
- Topics (Topica)
Natural philosophy
- Generation of Animals (De generatione animalium)
- History of Animals (Historia animalium)
- Meteorology (Meteorologica)
- Movement of Animals (De motu animalium)
- On Generation and Corruption (De generatione et corruptione)
- On the Heavens (De caelo)
- On the Soul (De anima)
- Parts of Animals (De partibus animalium)
- Parva Naturalia. On sensation, memory, sleep and dreams, among other subjects.
- Physics (Physica)
- Progression of Animals (De incessu animalium)
First philosophy
- Metaphysics (Metaphysica). Fourteen books; the title, “after the physics”, comes from the editors.
Ethics and politics
- The Athenian Constitution (Athenaion politeia). From Aristotle's school; found on a papyrus and published in 1891.
- Eudemian Ethics (Ethica Eudemia)
- Magna Moralia. Authorship disputed.
- Nicomachean Ethics (Ethica Nicomachea)
- Politics (Politica)
Rhetoric and poetics
Lost works
- Eudemus, or On the Soul (Eudemus). A dialogue.
- On Philosophy (De philosophia). A dialogue.
- Protrepticus. An exhortation to philosophy, partly reconstructed from Iamblichus.