Politics

Aristotle. The Politics. Translated by Carnes Lord. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Excerpt: Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always act in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and… More

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Translated by Robert Bartlett and Susan Collins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

First lines (W.D. Ross translation): Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. But a certain difference is found among ends; some are… More

Poetics

Aristotle. On Poetics. Translated by Seth Benardete and Michael Davis. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2002.

First lines (W.D. Ross translation) : I propose to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential quality of each, to inquire into the structure of the plot as requisite to a good poem; into the number and nature of the parts of which a poem is composed; and… More

The Metaphysics of Aristotle

Aristotle. The Metaphysics of Aristotle. Translated by Joe Sachs. Santa Fe, NM: Green Lion Press, 1999.

From the publisher: Joe Sachs has followed up his success with his translation of Aristotle’s Physics, published by Rutgers University Press, with a new translation of Metaphysics. Sachs’s translations bring distinguished new light onto Aristotle’s works, which are… More

De Anima

Aristotle. De Anima: On the Soul and On Memory and Recollection. Translated by Joe Sachs. Santa Fe, NM: Green Lion Press, 2001.

From Joe Sachs’s introduction to On the Soul: The inner life of the animal presents itself to us in its outer activity, and teaches us that we too dwell innately in our bodies. When the bird flies away, and doesn’t bump into the branches and other obstacles it glides around,… More

The Physics

Aristotle’s Physics: A Guided Study by Joe Sachs Rutgers Press, New Brunswick: 1995

From the publisher: Aristotle’s Physics is the only complete and coherent  book we have from the ancient world in which a thinker of the first rank seeks to say something about nature as a whole. For centuries, Aristotle’s inquiry into the causes and conditions of motion and rest… More