Aristotle: New Light on His Life and On Some of His Lost Works, Volume 2: Observations on Some of Aristotle's Lost Works (Routledge Library Editions: Aristotle)

Introduction -- 2. Categories -- 3. Prior analytics -- 4. Posterior analytics -- 5. Topics -- 6. Physics -- 7. De Caelo -- 8. Meteorology -- 9. De Anima -- 10. Metaphysics -- 11. Mechanics -- 12. Treatise on indivisible lines -- 13. Problems : book XV -- 14. Problems : book XVI -- 15. Problems : book XXIII -- 16. Nicomachean and Eudemian ethics -- 17. De Motu animalium -- 18. De Incessu animalium. Originally published in 1973. Aristotle's early works probably belong to the formative era of his philosophic thought and as such contribute vitally to the understanding and evaluation of the development of his philosophy. This book shows that the philosophy propagated in these lost works indicates an undeniable Platonism, and thus seems to conflict with the basic doctrines in the traditional treatises collected in the Corpus Aristotelicum . Was the author of the lost early works and the later preserved treatises one and the same person, or were some of these treatises written by members of the Early Peripatus? This, the second of two volumes, discusses in detail certain decisive aspects of Aristotle's early works. Fascinating hypotheses and conjectures put forward here provoke discussion and further investigation in the 'Aristotelian Problem'. Reissuing works originally published between 1938 and 1993, this set offers a range of scholarship covering Aristotle's logic, virtues and mathematics as well as a consideration of De Anima and of his work on physics, specifically light. The first two books are in themselves a pair, which investigate the philosopher's life and his lost works and development of his thought. Originally published in 1991. Philoponus' long commentary on Aristotle's definition of light sets up the major concerns, both in optics and theory of light, that is discussed here. The material investigated in this book contains much about the physiology of vision as well as the propagation of light. Originally published in 1938. This compact treatise is a complete treatment of Aristotle’s logic with primary consideration of the inclusion of negative terms - obversion, contraposition etc. – by addressing three questions, of systematization, the rules, and the interpretation. Originally published in 1973. The predominantly historical approach in this book heralds a belief that a better understanding of Aristotle the man, and the salient events of his life, leads to a greater insight into his work as a philosopher. Reissuing works originally published between 1938 and 1993, this set offers a range of scholarship covering Aristotle’s life and thought, his logic, virtues and mathematics, as well as a consideration of De Anima and of his work on light. Originally published in 1949. This meticulously researched book presents a comprehensive outline and discussion of Aristotle's mathematics with the author's translations of the greek.