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Aristotle
b. c. 384 BC; Stagira, Chalcidice Peninsula, Greece
d. c. 322 BC

Artistotle along with his teacher Plato, and Socrates (Plato's teacher), are considered to be one of the most influential ancient Greek philosophers. His thought covered ethics, aesthetics, logic, science, politics, and metaphysics and influenced medieval Christian theologians like Thomas Aquinas.

If you ever wonder if teachers have any effect take a look at Aristotle, who was a teacher of Alexander the Great, Ptolemy and Cassander at the royal academy of Macedon.

Alexander created one of the largest empires in ancient history (from the beginning of recorded human history until the Early Middle Ages); Ptolemy, the trusted general of Alexander, became ruler of Egypt; and Cassander, the founder of the Antipatrid dynasty.

Medieval Muslim intellectuals held Aristotle in high esteem and called him “The First Teacher.”

• ARISTOTLE BOOKS

The Basic Works of Aristotle - Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle's works have shaped Western thought, science and religion for nearly two thousand years. This edition includes selections from the Organon, On the Heavens, the Short Physical Treatises, Rhetoric, On the Soul, On Generations and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics.

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics - classic treatise contains ten books based on the famous doctrine of the golden mean which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency. Topics that Aristotle treats include the good for humanity, moral virtue, intellectual virtue, pleasure, friendship, and happiness.

The Metaphysics, Aristotle - Metaphysics, the study of existence at the highest level of generality, has been an established sector of philosophy since the time of Aristotle's initial systematisation of the subject in the fourth century B.C.E.

The Politics of Aristotle - “How can men best live together?”
Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of consitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how they may be maintained.
Like his predecessor Plato, Aristotle believed that the ideal constitution should be good in itself and in accordance with nature, and that it is needed by man - ‘a political animal’ - to fulfil his potential. His opinions form an essential background to the thinking of philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Jean Bodin and Richard Hooker. Both his premises and his arguements raise questions that are as relevant to modern society ans they were to the ancient world. (based on cover commentary)

The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle - In the Poetics Aristotle focuses mainly on drama, especially tragedy, and introduces ideas that are still being debated more than two thousand years later. Among them is the often misunderstood theory of the unities of action, place, and time, as well as such concepts as: art as a form of imitation, and drama as an imitation of human actions; plot as a dramas central element, and “reversal” and “recognition” as important elements within a plot; and the purging of pity and fear from the audience as the function of tragedy. Rather than offer these ideas merely as abstract theories, Aristotle applies them in cogent analyses of the classic Greek dramas — the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

LINKS FOR LEARNING : ARISTOTLE

• Aristotle - Wikipedia
• Aristotle at the UC Museum of Palentology
• Aristotle at Project Gutenberg