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1) Poetics
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Pub. Date
1997
Description
Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is thought of as one of the most important figures from classical antiquity. Aristotle was probably the most famous member of Plato's Academy in Athens, whose writings would ultimately form the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. His writings were not constrained to simply one field of inquiry but covered such various subjects as physics, biology, metaphysics,...
3) Rhetoric
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Pub. Date
[1954]
Description
Written sometime in the 4th Century BC, Aristotle's "Rhetoric" is the definitive treatise on the art of persuasive public speaking. The art of oratorical persuasion was an essential skill for the successful politician during the days of ancient Greece and Aristotle's "Rhetoric" is considered one of the greatest works from antiquity on the subject. Like many of the surviving works attributable to Aristotle, "Rhetoric" was not intended for public dissemination,...
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Pub. Date
c1982
Description
Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definitions and analyses of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our age, when the natural and social sciences have dominated the quest for truth, it is helpful to consider why Aristotle claimed poetry is more philosophical and more significant than history. Like so many other works by Aristotle, the Poetics has dominated the way we have thought...
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Series
Great books of the Western world volume 39
Description
The critique of pure reason is translated by J.M.D. Meiklejohn
The critique of practical reason and other ethical treatises are reprinted from Kant's Critique of practical reason and other works on the theory of ethics by the permission of the executors of the translator, Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
General introduction to the metaphysics of morals and The science of right, translated by W. Hastie, are reprinted by arrangement with T. & T. Clarke
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