The Essential Aristotle

Aristotl was a Greek philosopher and a student of Plato. He taught Alexanderthe Great and wrote on many subjects including physics metaphysics poetrytheater mus... » 

Aristotl was a Greek philosopher and a student of Plato. He taught Alexanderthe Great and wrote on many subjects including physics metaphysics poetrytheater music logic rhetoric politics government ethics biology andzoology. Together with Plato and Socrates Aristotle is one of the mostimportant founding figures in Western philosophy. He was the first to create acomprehensive system of Western philosophy encompassing morality andaesthetics logic and science politics and metaphysics. Aristotles views onthe physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship and theirinfluence extended well into the Renaissance. Included in this omnibus editionare Poetics Politics Rhetoric On the Heavens The Nicomachean Ethics and OnGeneration and Corruption. «