{"product_id":"metaphysics-volume-ii-by-aristotle-9780674993174","title":"Metaphysics, Volume II","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAristotle, 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 and taught there between 367 and 347 BCE. Subsequently, he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor, where he married Pythias, a relation of Hermeias. After spending some time in Mitylene, in 343–342 BCE, he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be the tutor of his teenaged son, Alexander. Following Philip's death in 336 BCE, 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 BCE.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost. The extant ones, which are priceless, consist of lecture materials, notes, and memoranda, although some are spurious. They can be categorised as follows:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI. Practical:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eNicomachean Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eGreat Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eMagna Moralia\u003c\/em\u003e); \u003cem\u003eEudemian Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003ePolitics\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eOeconomica\u003c\/em\u003e (on the good of the family); \u003cem\u003eVirtues and Vices\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eII. Logical:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eCategories\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eOn Interpretation\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eAnalytics\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003ePrior\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePosterior\u003c\/em\u003e); \u003cem\u003eOn Sophistical Refutations\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eTopica\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIII. Physical:\u003c\/strong\u003e Twenty-six works (some suspect) on topics including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, and facts about animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIV. \u003cem\u003eMetaphysics\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e On being as being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eV. On Art:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eArt of Rhetoric\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePoetics\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVI. Other works:\u003c\/strong\u003e Including the \u003cem\u003eAthenian Constitution\u003c\/em\u003e and more works of doubtful authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVII. Fragments:\u003c\/strong\u003e Various works, such as dialogues on philosophy and literature, and treatises on rhetoric, politics, and metaphysics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is available in twenty-three volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463624638700,"sku":"9780674993174","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674993174-metaphysics-volume-ii.jpg?v=1775035171","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/metaphysics-volume-ii-by-aristotle-9780674993174","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}