The Basic Works of Aristotle [Paperback]

Edited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve
 
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’sThe Basic Works of Aristotle—constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years—has long been considered the best available one-volume Aristotle. Appearing in paperback at long last, this edition includes selections from theOrganon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, Rhetoric,among others, andOn the Soul, On Generation and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics,andPoeticsin their entirety."The master of those who know."
--DanteRichard McKeonwas dean of the division of humanities at the University of Chicago and a renowned classical scholar.

C.D.C. Reeveis a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books on ancient Greek philosophy, most recentlyPractices of Reason: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics,and translator of Aristotle’sPoliticsand Plato’sCratylusandRepublic.Preface
The study of an ancient writer might appropriately envisage one or more of three objectives: the re-discovery and appreciation of past accomplishments and thoughts, the assemblage for present employment of odd, edifying, or useful items of information or knowledge, or the inquiry into truths whose specifications do not change with time. Although these three ends sometimes coincide in the reading of a philosopher who has been studied for centuries, the usual fate of philosophers, notwithstanding the concern for truth evinced in their writings, is to suffer doctrinal dismemberment by later philosophers and to undergo at the hands of historianlƒ3