Aristotle

384 BC - 322 BC

Titles on this disk:

• author: Constitution of Athens
• author: The Nicomachean Ethics
• author: The Politics vol. 1
• author: The Politics vol. 2 (notes)
• author: Posterior Analytics

Quotation:

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

About this person:

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.