philosopher Aristotle wrote: “ no one would choose to live without friends,” even if they could have all other good things instead.Īristotle is mostly known for his influence on science, politics and aesthetics he is less well known for his writing on friendship. Many people struggle to make and maintain friendships, and a falling-out with a close friend can be as painful as a breakup with a partner.ĭespite these potential pitfalls, human beings have always prized friendship. While most love songs are inspired by the joys and heartaches of romantic relationships, love between friends can be just as intense and complicated. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.Aristotle (center), wearing a blue robe, seen in a discourse with Plato in a 16th century fresco, 'The School of Athens' by Raphael.

Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics. Other works including the Athenian Constitution more works also of doubtful authorship. Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. Logical: Categories On Interpretation Analytics ( Prior and Posterior) On Sophistical Refutations Topica. Practical: Nicomachean Ethics Great Ethics ( Magna Moralia) Eudemian Ethics Politics Oeconomica (on the good of the family) Virtues and Vices. Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander’s death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. After Philip’s death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of “Peripatetics”), the Lyceum at Athens. 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. 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.

Now with enhanced navigation »Īristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. The digital Loeb Classical Library extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.

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