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1. Ethics by Aristotle | |
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(2009-10-04)
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Aristotle needed an editor.
A Must READ!!! |
2. Politics: A Treatise on Government: A Powerful Work by Aristotle (Timeless Classic Books) by Aristotle, Timeless Classic Books | |
Paperback: 150
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(2010-08-28)
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outstanding |
3. THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHER: CONTAINING HIS COMPLETE MASTERPIECE AND FAMILY PHYSICIAN; HIS EXPERIENCED MIDWIFE; HIS BOOK OF PROBLEMS AND HIS REMARKS ON PHYSIOGNOMY by ARISTOTLE | |
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The works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher |
4. Poetics. English by Aristotle | |
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5. Aristotle on the art of poetry by Aristotle | |
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(2004-10-01)
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How long is this text? |
6. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle | |
Paperback: 182
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(2009-09-16)
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Good Book But...
Sachs' Translation.
Eudaimonic!
Amazing Condition, clean, and just Perfect!
Basis for scientific and Christian ethics |
7. Poetics by Aristotle | |
Paperback: 68
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(2008-10-31)
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Tragedy teaches us something about life
Excellent text for intro to theatre course
Tragedy Teaches Us Something About Life
Tragedy Teaches Us Something About Life
Tragedy Teaches Us Something About Life |
8. Rhetoric by Aristotle | |
Paperback: 146
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(2010-09-18)
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Relevant 2300 Years Ago, Relevant Today
Beyond powerpoint. Be pursuasive and good!
Aristotle Rhetoric
it's cheap for a reason
Research for a class in Informal Logic |
9. The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics) by Aristotle | |
Paperback: 1520
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(2001-09-11)
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fantastic
A Good Buy and a Solid Translation
An edition with definite pros and cons
The Oxford translation seems better than this one
Damaged |
10. Aristotle for Everybody by Mortimer J. Adler | |
Paperback: 288
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(1997-06-01)
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A Broad yet Undemanding Overview on Aristotle
A very accessible introduction to a very important thinker
Aristotle is for everybody
Intro for the Young Reader
Aristotle-Everybody's philosopher |
11. A New Aristotle Reader | |
Paperback: 600
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(1988-01-01)
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Very usable and useful The translations (though I am by no means a scholar of Greek) seem to be quite proper, and despite the fact that different sections may be translated by different people, there is no apparent unevenness. Ackrill laments in the introduction that it would have been more proper to leave about 30-40 Greek words (such as 'logos', 'aitia', 'ousia') untranslated, since no single English word does them justice. But that since there aretranslations by several people involved, that was not possible. All in all, this would be a very handy book for anyone interested in Aristotle.
An Excellent Compendium I own both books, and oddly find myself picking up this volume rather than the two-volume set, for easy reference. All the essential material is here, and none of the important elements are injudiciously edited. Thus for a single volume, it does double duty -- providing the most current translation of Aristotle, while appropriately editing the most salient parts for the specialist and non-specialist alike. The book is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate semester courses as a complete enough text for either venue. It also has a nice topical index in the back that refers the reader to many essays written in the scondary literature. ... Read more |
12. Complete Works of Aristotle, Vol. 1 by Aristotle | |
Hardcover: 1256
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(1971)
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Review of Oxford's 'Complete Aristotle: Volume I'
Marvelous- It's ALL in here folks!(BOTH VOLUMES)
a bit of irony
Where's Volume 2?
for the student of logic and biology |
13. The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 2 (Bollingen Series LXXI-2) by Aristotle | |
Hardcover: 1256
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(1984-09-01)
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Review of Oxford's 'Complete Aristotle: Volume II'
Aristotle is fantastic
The Complete Works of Aristotle Volume 2 As with the first volume, this translation makes the surviving works of Aristotle easily read for the English-speaking readers.This volume combined with the first makes a comprehesive work.Both volumes are nicely bound and the type is easy to read.Also, the volumes have numerals printed in the outer margins to key the translations to Immanuel Bekker's standard edition of the Greek text of Aristotle of 1831.The index of both editions could use a bit more work as they are cumbersome to work with, but not impossible. I've found that using "The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle" of great help.This is also edithed by Jonathan Barnes.The contents of volume 2 are as follows:On Plants, On Marvellous Things Heard, Mechanics, Problems On Indivisible Lines, The Situation and Names of Winds, On Melissus,Xenophanes,and Gorgias, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Magna Moralia, Eudemian Ethics, On Virtues and Vices, Politics, Economics, Rhetoric, Rhetoric to Alexander, Poetics, Constition of Athens, Fragments. As with the first voume, this work contains works that the authenticity has been seriously doubted and works that are spurious and have never been seroiusly contested. The translations are easily read and flow.You can definately understand what Aristotle is trying to say. Both of these volumes make an excellent addition to your home library. ... Read more |
14. Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters: Storytelling Secrets From the Greatest Mind in Western Civilization by Michael Tierno | |
Paperback: 192
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(2002-08-21)
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Editorial Review Product Description An insightful how-to guide for writing screenplays that uses Aristotle's great work as a guide. Long considered the bible for storytellers, Aristotle's Poetics is a fixture of college courses on everything from fiction writing to dramatic theory. Now Michael Tierno shows how this great work can be an invaluable resource to screenwriters or anyone interested in studying plot structure. In carefully organized chapters, Tierno breaks down the fundamentals of screenwriting, highlighting particular aspects of Aristotle's work. Then, using examples from some of the best movies ever made, he demonstrates how to apply these ancient insights to modern-day screenwriting. This user-friendly guide covers a multitude of topics, from plotting and subplotting to dialogue and dramatic unity. Writing in a highly readable, informal tone, Tierno makes Aristotle's monumental work accessible to beginners and pros alike in areas such as screenwriting, film theory, fiction, and playwriting. Customer Reviews (14)
Good book
received well
John du Prey - Classical Review
Learning from Aristotle
Prepare yourself for a slow, arduous read -- but, there are some gems for those patient enough to methodically dig through it... |
15. Categoriae. English by Aristotle | |
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16. Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Jonathan Barnes | |
Paperback: 176
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(2001-01-18)
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An Approachable Introduction to The Philosopher
A very good short introduction
Review of Barne's Very Short Introduction to Aristotle
An outstanding introduction to and evaluation of Aristotle
Informative but dull |
17. If Aristotle Ran General Motors by Tom Morris | |
Paperback: 216
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(1998-11-15)
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Philosophy for everyone
Great reading
If an irrational populist ran a non-profit agency
Brilliant This book, brilliant in every way, attempts, and succeeds, in arguing that wisdom and its concrete manifestation in ethics, should be the cornerstone of business life. The author is a philosopher, and not a business owner, but with his insight into the dynamics of the marketplace and its optimization, his ideas are clearly thinking "out of the box". One can only hope that business leaders (and others) will discover the ideas in this book or some other like it. With today's headlines in corporate fraud and other scandals (some justified and some not), business people need to start believing in the efficacy of ethics in optimizing their business ventures. The preface to the book concerns "reinventing corporate spirit", the author drawing on the thoughts of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle to set up the foundation for his arguments in the book. He recognizes correctly that it is ideas that fundamentally move the world. Throughout the book are many interesting insights into the psychology of business practices. When speaking of happiness for example, in relation to Aristotle's notion of eudaemonia, one of these is the recognition that money is frequently not the end goal for business people, the real goal being to achieve admiration in the eyes of others. The resulting ostentatious lifestyle is primarily done to impress, this being a transient and ultimately unsatisfying motivation in the eyes of the author. The book is divided up into four parts: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and Unity. Each of these stand for respectively, the intellectual, aesthetic, moral, and spirtual necessities for achieving true happiness. Quoting the Hindu proverb "The true nobility is in being superior to your precious self", the author encourages the view of competition as being one in which individuals surpass their former abilities, instead of worrying about their status in relation to others. He's right. Even more important is that the author addresses the influence of philosophy in the development of ethical attitudes in business. Ethical relativism and nihilism have wreaked havoc in society as a whole, not just in business, and the author emphasizes the need for coming to grips with these beliefs, and replacing them with sound philosophical systems that are both rational and meshed with common sense. "Ideas rock the world" he states. He's right. Most refreshingly, the author does not shy away from addressing the issue of self-interest. Confronting the "What's in it for me?" question that is asked by some, he clearly believes that self-interest is not something to be swept under the rug in discussions on ethics and morality in business. "The view that ethics requires total personal disinterestedness is a dangerous distortion of the truly moral point of view", he states. He's right. Peer pressure and "going with the flow" are always issues that everyone has to deal with in the business environment. Not being labeled as a "team player" can be detrimental to one's growth in a particular organization. The author asks the reader to count the costs of conformity and not to "associate with evil men, lest you increase their number", quoting George Herbert. He's right. But ethics is not merely a collection of arbitrary rules to follow, the author argues. The right course of action is built into the nature of reality and meshes with human nature and human needs. Since this is the case, the practice of true ethical norms is not only productive, but pleasureful to the individual, and instead of causing boredom as some might believe, alleviates it, argues the author. He's right. Some might label, and the author does unashamedly, the framework outlined in the book as "spiritual". Goal-oriented, truth-valuing, truth-loving conduct results in a productive, life-loving spiritual individual, in complete antithesis to that of a sterile, non-creative, cynical one who views life as a burden with crosses to bear. Some of course might view this book, and one on ethics in general, as being "idealistic" or "naive". Such individuals may not wish to even pick it up, let alone read it. But individuals who practice these ideas, or ones very similar, haved moved the world, and will continue to do so.
Genuinely non-Aristotelian look at Business Leadership... Morris falls short perhaps because he is simply a mediocre scholar of Aristotle, perhaps because he was a professor of philosophy at a Catholic university, or perhaps because he is simply just a below-average writer.Regardless, the author comes up lacking in both the style and substance of a book premise that could be truly great in more capable hands. As to style, the book is replete with anecdotes that sometimes illustrate points quite well and sometimes are clearly inserted only because the author had them at his disposal.Likewise, the book is peppered with quotations that interrupt the flow of the narrative and only rarely have anything more than a tangential relevance to the text surrounding it.One such quote, from the author himself, neatly summarizes my view of this production: "Obscurity is not a mark of profundity, however many confused writers have hoped to bully us into believing otherwise." How true, how true indeed: I wonder how many of his students felt the same way after one of his philosophy lectures. As to substance, the book is almost a complete loss.I say almost because, to be fair, Morris does come close to painting an Aristotelian view of life when he delves into the meaning of life.The author frames up his answer beautifully but then promptly undermines it in his attempts at clarification.To be more specific, Morris claims that the meaning of life is to be found in "creative love" (or, more accurately, in the love of creativity).While this sounds at first blush to be both logical and promising, not unlike the true motive power behind human innovation, Morris explains his surmise so ineptly that it becomes readily apparent to the reader that any proximity to the truth was merely an accident.Far from leading the reader closer to any meaningful answers, Morris abandons the audience as if in mid-thought, convincing them that his conclusions were as much the product of coincidence as of rational thought. This is just one example of the sort of philosophical inconsistency that exists throughout this book.In nearly every chapter, Morris makes sweeping, unsubstantiated statements and then proceeds as if these statements were self-evident truths.This might be passable if the author were able to consistently proceed from these sweeping statements in a logical progression.However, the reader frequently gets no more than one or two steps away from an assertion masquerading as immutable law when the author creates transparent straw man arguments to bolster his tenuous premises.Even if the reader can forgive (and accept as true) the first premise of the author's progression, the subsequent steps are so disorienting and fallacious that it is hard to move past them. Perhaps the most obvious example of this is how Morris routinely equates rational self-interest with intellectual myopia.For instance, in painting the entire philosophical landscape, he cites only three schools of thought: Nihilism, Relativism, and Absolutism.While he aptly defines the concepts of Nihilism and he readily betrays himself as a Relativist, he casts Absolutism as the province solely of religious zealots. Morris's emphatic use of the relativist's scale on which to measure thought is perhaps the fundamental flaw of his book.It is a small wonder that he finds no thematic consistency when he shows us a different yardstick for the measurement of each new topic.This changing standard sometimes becomes outright silly.For instance, on nearly a half dozen occasions, Morris attempts to weave coherent messages by juxtaposing concepts from the writings of Aristotle next to those of prominent theologians.The result of this sort of conceptual looseness is that better than half of the supposed insights delivered by the book turn out to be little more than fortune cookie proclamations-statements devoid of both context and independently verifiable meaning. All of this should be hardly surprising from someone who openly claims that any "unifying principle of philosophy is a dream." The question that remains for the reader, however, is: Why choose Aristotle if you believe philosophical unification is unachievable?Why co-opt the one Philosopher who may have come closest to philosophical unity than any other?Why not be honest with your readers?Why not entitle the book: If Dale Carnegie Ran General Motors?Even Plato or Immanuel Kant or William James would have been better choices, but that discussion is for another time. Like so many academic philosophers and modern business writers, Morris selects philosophical concepts based on their emotional appeal rather than with regard to any underlying consistency.This book, like virtually every business book on the market (with a few highly worthwhile exceptions) simply promotes the art we witness in greeting cards and long-distance phone commercials on television.From it, we get nothing more than the regurgitation of unthinking, it-takes-a-village drivel that characterizes so much of todays supposed non-fiction writing.Morris' entire effort seems to be very much like a Hollywood production-aiming to tug at heartstrings with nothing more substantive as a goal.In the end, that is all this book is equipped to do: provide us with a feeling...sadly, that feeling is simple, straightforward disappointment. ... Read more |
18. Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Aristotle | |
Paperback: 328
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(1996-10-13)
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Excellent Transaction
If You Don't Want To Live In A State, You Are Either A God Or A Beast
Aristotle's 'Politics' still essential 'ThePolitics' remains an essential feature in the literature of politics andphilosophy.Whether the reader is a first year political science studentor a senior lecturer seeking to replace that well-worn second (or third)copy of an earlier edition, the particular book will be the ideal choice. ... Read more |
19. Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages by Richard E. Rubenstein | |
Paperback: 384
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(2004-09-20)
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How Aristotle shaped, and still shapes, our world.
Interesting but not enough
Aristotle's Children
Aristotle reused, Renaissance ignited
Misleading |
20. Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts | |
Paperback: 250
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(2004-09-10)
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Used book just like new.
Accessible deep reading
aristotle and hogwarts
Timbus Violett speaks for Albus
Amazing read!! |
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