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Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–47); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias’s relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–2 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 Nicomachean Ethics ; Great Ethics ( Magna Moralia ); Eudemian Ethics ; Politics ; Oeconomica (on the good of the family); Virtues and Vices .
II. Categories ; On Interpretation ; Analytics ( Prior and Posterior ); On Sophistical Refutations ; Topica .
III. 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. On Art of Rhetoric and Poetics .
VI. Other works including the Athenian Constitution ; 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.
II. Categories ; On Interpretation ; Analytics ( Prior and Posterior ); On Sophistical Refutations ; Topica .
III. 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. On Art of Rhetoric and Poetics .
VI. Other works including the Athenian Constitution ; 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.
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Published June 28, 1979
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Aristotle
3,939 books5,482 followersAristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.
Little is known about Aristotle's life. He was born in the city of Stagira in northern Greece during the Classical period. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian. At 17 or 18, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of 37 (c. 347 BC). Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored his son Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. He established a library in the Lyceum, which helped him to produce many of his hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls.
Though Aristotle wrote many treatises and dialogues for publication, only around a third of his original output has survived, none of it intended for publication. Aristotle provided a complex synthesis of the various philosophies existing prior to him. His teachings and methods of inquiry have had a significant impact across the world, and remain a subject of contemporary philosophical discussion.
Aristotle's views profoundly shaped medieval scholarship. The influence of his physical science extended from late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages into the Renaissance, and was not replaced systematically until the Enlightenment and theories such as classical mechanics were developed. He influenced Judeo-Islamic philosophies during the Middle Ages, as well as Christian theology, especially the Neoplatonism of the Early Church and the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church.
Aristotle was revered among medieval Muslim scholars as "The First Teacher", and among medieval Christians like Thomas Aquinas as simply "The Philosopher", while the poet Dante Alighieri called him "the master of those who know". His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, and were studied by medieval scholars such as Pierre Abélard and Jean Buridan. Aristotle's influence on logic continued well into the 19th century. In addition, his ethics, although always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics.
Little is known about Aristotle's life. He was born in the city of Stagira in northern Greece during the Classical period. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian. At 17 or 18, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of 37 (c. 347 BC). Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored his son Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. He established a library in the Lyceum, which helped him to produce many of his hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls.
Though Aristotle wrote many treatises and dialogues for publication, only around a third of his original output has survived, none of it intended for publication. Aristotle provided a complex synthesis of the various philosophies existing prior to him. His teachings and methods of inquiry have had a significant impact across the world, and remain a subject of contemporary philosophical discussion.
Aristotle's views profoundly shaped medieval scholarship. The influence of his physical science extended from late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages into the Renaissance, and was not replaced systematically until the Enlightenment and theories such as classical mechanics were developed. He influenced Judeo-Islamic philosophies during the Middle Ages, as well as Christian theology, especially the Neoplatonism of the Early Church and the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church.
Aristotle was revered among medieval Muslim scholars as "The First Teacher", and among medieval Christians like Thomas Aquinas as simply "The Philosopher", while the poet Dante Alighieri called him "the master of those who know". His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, and were studied by medieval scholars such as Pierre Abélard and Jean Buridan. Aristotle's influence on logic continued well into the 19th century. In addition, his ethics, although always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics.
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January 5, 2022
akhirnya selesai juga "membaca" buku babon ini. buku yang saya baca dengan nekat. nekat karena ibnu sina saja katanya berulang kali baca buku ini tapi gak ngerti-ngerti.
ibnu sina baru bisa memahami uraian-uraian om aristo di buku ini setelah nemu buku karya al farabi yang judulnya Fi Aghradh Kitab ma ba’da ath-Thabi’ah li Aristhu.
tapi saya bersyukur. kenekatan saya terbayar. karena ternyata banyak sekali yang saya dapat dalam membaca buku ini. dan dengan membaca buku ini. ini jelas ketularan gaya tutur om aristo. udah dalam pake dengan juga :D
salah satu berkah yang saya dapat. saya jadi harus dengerin lagi ngaji filsafat mjs colombo by pak fahruddin faiz. dari awal. yang materi dasar 1-20. dengan serius pake nyatet-nyatet. gatau dapat berapa SKS filsafat dasar itu.
yang pasti habis baca buku ini, saya makin paham bagaimana kemampuan berpikir mendasar, berpikir sampai ke akar, harus ditumbuhkan pertama-tama pada diri setiap orang. karena manusia adalah makhluk yang berpikir. karena manusia adalah hewan yang berpikir. karena berpikir adalah hal yang membedakan manusia dengan makhluk lainnya. yang ketika atribut "berpikir" ini dilepaskan dari manusia, maka yang tertinggal adalah hanya hewan-nya. kira-kira sederhananya seperti itu.
dan yang ngga sederhananya, saya jadi paham mengapa orang yang punya kemampuan berpikir mendasar atau filsafat ini, jadi lebih bisa menafsir dunia dan peristiwanya, dan punya sikap sendiri atas persoalan persoalan dunia. klo yang ini berat :)
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ibnu sina baru bisa memahami uraian-uraian om aristo di buku ini setelah nemu buku karya al farabi yang judulnya Fi Aghradh Kitab ma ba’da ath-Thabi’ah li Aristhu.
tapi saya bersyukur. kenekatan saya terbayar. karena ternyata banyak sekali yang saya dapat dalam membaca buku ini. dan dengan membaca buku ini. ini jelas ketularan gaya tutur om aristo. udah dalam pake dengan juga :D
salah satu berkah yang saya dapat. saya jadi harus dengerin lagi ngaji filsafat mjs colombo by pak fahruddin faiz. dari awal. yang materi dasar 1-20. dengan serius pake nyatet-nyatet. gatau dapat berapa SKS filsafat dasar itu.
yang pasti habis baca buku ini, saya makin paham bagaimana kemampuan berpikir mendasar, berpikir sampai ke akar, harus ditumbuhkan pertama-tama pada diri setiap orang. karena manusia adalah makhluk yang berpikir. karena manusia adalah hewan yang berpikir. karena berpikir adalah hal yang membedakan manusia dengan makhluk lainnya. yang ketika atribut "berpikir" ini dilepaskan dari manusia, maka yang tertinggal adalah hanya hewan-nya. kira-kira sederhananya seperti itu.
dan yang ngga sederhananya, saya jadi paham mengapa orang yang punya kemampuan berpikir mendasar atau filsafat ini, jadi lebih bisa menafsir dunia dan peristiwanya, dan punya sikap sendiri atas persoalan persoalan dunia. klo yang ini berat :)
btw, materi ngaji filsafat mjs colombo bisa didapat di https://mjscolombo.com/download/
October 8, 2008
This extraordinary text totally paved the way for the rest of Western metaphysics. It is a lucid text, though still difficult because of the complexity of the ideas. In it, Aristotle posits his famous causes of being, material, formal, efficient, final. And he conceptualizes the criteria for essence. There is almost no way to master the contents of this body of work, it has challenged the greatest thinkers ever since its rediscovery and will continue to astound and mystify for as long as it continues to exist.
May 13, 2022
I am sure this is a good book. And I am sure I got something out of it. I’m just not sure what that was? It was hard for me. But it’s not the book it’s me
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October 12, 2014
Metaphysical fireworks, though problematic to read in translation (like all Aristotle).
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