{"product_id":"politics-by-aristotle-9780674992917","title":"Politics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAristotle, the great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, was born at Stagirus in 384 BCE to Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there from 367–347 BCE. Subsequently, he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor, and during this time he married Pythias, a relation of Hermeias. After some time at Mitylene, he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon in 343–342 BCE to tutor his teen-aged son Alexander.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter Philip's death in 336 BCE, Aristotle became head of his own school, known as the \"Peripatetics\", at the Lyceum in Athens. Due to anti-Macedonian sentiment following Alexander's death in 323 BCE, 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 priceless ones extant are lecture materials, notes, and memoranda, though some are spurious. They can be categorised as follows:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI. Practical: \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\u003eII. Logical: \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\u003eIII. Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including those on astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, and facts about animals, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIV. \u003cem\u003eMetaphysics\u003c\/em\u003e: on being as being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eV. On Art: \u003cem\u003eArt of Rhetoric\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePoetics\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVI. Other works including the \u003cem\u003eAthenian Constitution\u003c\/em\u003e; and more works of doubtful authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVII. Fragments of 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 in twenty-three volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932378448108,"sku":"9780674992917","price":97.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674992917-politics.jpg?v=1783861300","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/politics-by-aristotle-9780674992917","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}