Categories. On Interpretation. Prior Analytics

Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, was born at Stagirus in 384 BCE. He was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. Aristotle studied under Plato at Athens, where he also taught from 367 to 347. He later spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor, during which time he married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations.

After his time in Mitylene, in 343–2, Aristotle was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be the tutor of his teenage son, Alexander. Following Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became the head of his own school of "Peripatetics," the Lyceum at Athens. Due to anti-Macedonian sentiment after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.

Nearly all of the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the invaluable extant works are lecture materials, notes, and memoranda, though some are spurious. These can be categorised as follows:

I. Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Oeconomica (on the good of the family); Virtues and Vices.

II. Logical: Categories; On Interpretation; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); On Sophistical Refutations; Topica.

III. Physical: 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: 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 available in twenty-three volumes.