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.

Lysis, Or Friendship

What is Friendship? Youthfulness and sense of beauty pervades, rich in the description of Greek life. The question is again raised of the relation of knowledge to virtue and good,...

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...

Ethics

The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in...

On The Gait Of Animals

We have now to consider the parts which are useful to animals for movement in place (locomotion); first, why each part is such as it is and to what end they possess them; and...

The Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching, Daodejing, Dao De Jing, or Daode jing , also simply referred to as the Laozi, is a Chinese classic text. The text's true authorship and date of composition...

Phaedo

After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo...

Ion

The Ion is the shortest, or nearly the shortest, of all the writings which bear the name of Plato, and is not authenticated by any early external testimony. The grace and beauty...

The Great Learning

The Great Learning was one of the "Four Books" in Confucianism. The Great Learning had come from a chapter in the Classic of Rites which formed one of the Five Classics....

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