The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics)

Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotles works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeons The Basic Works of Aristotleconstituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty yearshas long been considered the best available one-volume Aristotle. Appearing in paperback at long last, this edition includes selections from the Organon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, Rhetoric, among others, and On the Soul, On Generation and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics in their entirety.