Aristotle

While both are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. -- Aristotle, defending his rejection of Plato's Theory of the forms

• • Nicomachean Ethics Book I chapter 6, 1096a.16

• Start with Aristotle's collected works on wikisource. Follow Maimonides' guide, if you are perplexed, whose latin translation instigated the scholastic movement, the the w:midieval university, and the 12th century renaissance. If you prefer a contemporary guide, consider contributing to Aristotle for Everybody, a companion course to the eponymous book by Mortimer Adler

Classic and Scholastic Expositors

• Isagoge (Introduction) to Aristotle's Categories by Porphyry
• Guide to the Perplexed, by Maimonides

Course

DEPRECATED - see associated wikipedia articles for information, and consider contributing to Aristotle for Everybody

• Life and Works
• Phenomenology of Knowledge - Categories, Topics, Sophistic refutations
• Logic and Linguistics - Prior Analytics, Hermeneutics
• Natural philosophy and science - Physics, Posterior Analytics
• Biology and Psychology
• Ontology and Metaphysics
• Cosmology and Theology
• Ethics and Politics
• Legacy

Related resources

• Natural Science 14-17th century. A paper that covers Aristotelianism in the 14th to the 17th century CE.
• Doctrine of Change. Excerpts from Aristotle's Physics.
• On the Soul: Outline. Outline of Aristotle, On the Soul.
• On the Soul: discussion group. Discussion group.
• Aristotle's Categories and Topics. Solved problem.

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• Topic:Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
• Introduction to Philosophy

External links

• Aristotle Founds Zoology. Youtube video.
• Aristotle's The History of Animals. Classic work.
• About Aristotle, In Brief. UC Berkeley article.