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Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs, pronounced [aristotélɛːs]; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts.
On the Heavens. On the Heavens (Greek: Περὶ οὐρανοῦ; Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle 's chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BC, [citation needed] it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world. It should not be confused with the spurious work On the ...
Categories. (Aristotle) The Categories ( Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai; Latin Categoriae or Praedicamenta) is a text from Aristotle 's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. They are "perhaps the single most heavily discussed of all Aristotelian notions". [1]
Christian views on sin. The Prodigal Son. In Christianity, sin is an immoral act and transgression of divine law. [1] The doctrine of sin is central to the Christian faith, since its basic message is about redemption in Christ. [2] Hamartiology, a branch of Christian theology which is the study of sin, [3] describes sin as an act of offence ...
Theology of Aristotle. The Theology of Aristotle, also called Theologia Aristotelis ( Arabic: أثولوجيا أرسطو, romanized : Athulujiya Aristu) is a paraphrase in Arabic of parts of Plotinus ' Six Enneads along with Porphyry 's commentary. It was traditionally attributed to Aristotle, but as this attribution is certainly untrue it is ...
The Constitution of the Athenians, also called the Athenian Constitution ( Ancient Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία, romanized : Athēnaiōn Politeia ), is a work by Aristotle or one of his students. The work describes the constitution of Athens. It is preserved on a papyrus roll from Hermopolis, published in 1891 and now in the ...
Sophistical Refutations ( Greek: Σοφιστικοὶ Ἔλεγχοι, romanized : Sophistikoi Elenchoi; Latin: De Sophisticis Elenchis) is a text in Aristotle 's Organon in which he identified thirteen fallacies. [note 1] According to Aristotle, this is the first work to treat the subject of deductive reasoning in ancient Greece ( Soph. Ref ...
Poetics. (Aristotle) Aristotle 's Poetics ( Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς Peri poietikês; Latin: De Poetica; [1] c. 335 BCE [2]) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.