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Title: Complete Works of Aristotle, Vol. 1 by Aristotle, J. Barnes ISBN: 0-691-01650-X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $47.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great for Classicists and Novices Alike
Comment: Barnes' translation is painstakingly accurate as well as highly readable, making these the best (as well as, quite obviously, the most comprehensive) Aristotle volumes on the market, for those familiar with the Aristotelean corpus in its original Greek, as well as for anyone who wants a good introduction to the seminal thinker.
As seems to be a common complaint--alas, the index leaves very much to be desired, and the editorial introduction is not great: Durant's famous essay (available in the "Story of Philosophy") eclipses it easily. Nonetheless, these two volumes should replace all the Aristotle on your shelf: they are a pleasure to own and read.
"Ho anexetastos bios ou biotos anthropoi--the unexamined life is not worth living." Said by Plato, proved by Aristotle.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Complete Works of Aristotle Volume 2
Comment: The Complete Works of Aristotle Volume 2 edited bu Jonathan Barnes is a continuation of the revised Oxford translation. Aristotle is one of the greatest thinkers in the Western tradition, but also one of the most difficult.
As with the first volume, this translation makes the surviving works of Aristotle easily read for the English-speaking readers. This volume combined with the first makes a comprehesive work. Both volumes are nicely bound and the type is easy to read. Also, the volumes have numerals printed in the outer margins to key the translations to Immanuel Bekker's standard edition of the Greek text of Aristotle of 1831. The index of both editions could use a bit more work as they are cumbersome to work with, but not impossible.
I've found that using "The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle" of great help. This is also edithed by Jonathan Barnes. The contents of volume 2 are as follows: On Plants, On Marvellous Things Heard, Mechanics, Problems On Indivisible Lines, The Situation and Names of Winds, On Melissus,Xenophanes,and Gorgias, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Magna Moralia, Eudemian Ethics, On Virtues and Vices, Politics, Economics, Rhetoric, Rhetoric to Alexander, Poetics, Constition of Athens, Fragments.
As with the first voume, this work contains works that the authenticity has been seriously doubted and works that are spurious and have never been seroiusly contested.
The translations are easily read and flow. You can definately understand what Aristotle is trying to say. Both of these volumes make an excellent addition to your home library.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Complete Works of Aristotle: Volume 1
Comment: The Complete Works of Aristotle: Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Barnes is the revised Oxford translation. These works are readable and comprehensive.
Aristotle is a difficult and challenging thinker... one of the greatest thinkers. The first volume deals with the following: Categories, De Interpretatione, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, Sophistical Refutations, Physics, On the Heavens, On Generation and Corruption, Meteorology, On the Universe, On the Soul, Sense and Sensibilia, On Memory, On Sleep, On Dreams, On Divination in Sleep, On Length and Shortness of Life, On Youth,Old Age,Life and Death,and Respiration, Oh Breath, History of Animals, Parts of Animals, Movement of Animals, Progression of Animals, Generation of Animals, On Colours, On Things Heard, Physiognomonics.
This volume contains authenticity that is been serously doubted and also works that are spurious and has never been seriously contested. So, if it looks like Aristotle, then it's here.
There are numerals printed in the outer margins which key the translation to Immanuel Bekker's standard edition of the Greek text. All in all, this is an excellent translation and can be easily referred to by English speakers. I enjoyed the translations, even the footnotes when the translations deviated from the preferred... such places are rare though.
This along with volume 2 are excellent additions to your library.
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Title: Plato Complete Works by Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson ISBN: 0872203492 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $48.50 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle by Jonathan Barnes ISBN: 0521422949 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 27 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Plato by Richard Kraut ISBN: 0521436109 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 30 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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Title: The Presocratic Philosophers by G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield ISBN: 0521274559 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 December, 1983 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer, Allen W. Wood ISBN: 0521657296 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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