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Aristotle

384 BC - 322 BC

About the Author

Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who set up a rival academy, The Lyceum, to challenge Plato’s Academy. Aristotle wrote influential works in a range of disciplines - politics, physics, ethics, economics - and had a profound impact on Western thought.

In The Library:

• author: Constitution of Athens (320 BC)
• author: The Nicomachean Ethics (1893)
• author: The Politics 2 vols. (320 BC)
• author: The Politics vol. 1 (320 BC)
• author: The Politics vol. 2 (notes) (1885)
• author: Posterior Analytics (1901)

Quotations:

• Aristotle insists that man is either a political animal (the natural state) or an outcast like a “bird which flies alone” (4thC BC) (17 March, 2008)