Elsewhere we have investigated in detail the movement of animals after their various kinds, the differences between them, and the reasons for their particular characters (for some...
Utopia
Utopia is a frame narrative depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs, a work of fiction and political philosophy. Concerning the...
On The Heavens
The science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of...
Poetics
Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account...
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...
On Sense And The Sensible
Having now definitely considered the soul, by itself, and its several faculties, we must next make a survey of animals and all living things, in order to ascertain what functions...
On Sophistical Refutations
Let us now discuss sophistic refutations, i.e. what appear to be refutations but are really fallacies instead. Some reasonings are genuine, while others seem to be so but are not,...
Physics
Physics is a collection of lessons that deal with the general principles of natural or moving things, both living and non-living, rather than physical theories or investigations...
Common Sense
Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of whether or not to seek independence was the central...
Theaetetus
Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined with any degree of certainty. The Theaetetus, like the...
