On Longevity And Shortness Of Life

The reasons for some animals being long-lived and others short-lived, and, in a word, causes of the length and brevity of life.

Politics: A Treatise On Government

The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first part. It looks back to the Ethics as the Ethics looks forward to the Politics. For...

Meteorology

We have already discussed the first causes of nature, and all natural motion, also the stars ordered in the motion of the heavens, and the physical element-enumerating and...

On The Heavens

On the Heavens is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BC it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial...

On Dreams

"On Dreams" is one of the short treatises that make up Aristotle's Parva Naturalia.Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist.Translated by...

On Memory And Reminiscence

We have, in the next place, to treat of Memory and Remembering, considering its nature, its cause, and the part of the soul to which this experience, as well as that of...

Physics

The Physics of Aristotle is one of the foundational books of Western science and philosophy. As Martin Heidegger once wrote.The Physics is a lecture in which he seeks to determine...

On Sleep And Sleeplessness

With regard to sleep and waking, we must consider what they are: whether they are peculiar to soul or to body, or common to both; and if common, to what part of soul or body they...

Aristotle’s Poetics

Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definition and analysis of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our...

On Prophesying By Dreams

As to the divination which takes place in sleep, and is said to be based on dreams, we cannot lightly either dismiss it with contempt or give it implicit confidence. The fact that...

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