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The Philosophy of Aristotle

Two important parts of Aristotle's philosophy are provided here in hypertext. These are:

I did these because the available texts were lacking in structure, and not good for someone like myself who is bad at reading and inclined to dip. In particular, the work is divided into volumes, books, and parts (lots of them) but none have them have titles.

So the idea was to break the texts up with just one part to a file and to put in indexes with titles for each volume, book and part (which I would probably have to invent myself). Its really just a presentation of concise notes on what the various parts are about. I also put in indexes containing the first line of each paragraph.

This might sound like hard work, which it would have been if I had not used PERL. However, working out what all the titles should be is not something you can program, so that is more time consuming and I have not got terribly far with it.

The original text files were all obtained from The Internet Classics Archive.

Jordana Wiener did a nice online presentation of Aristotle's Syllogism including hypertext of the primary sources, unfortunately now messed up by changes to the Perseus project which hosted it (link left pro-tem in case they sort it out).

A better place to look at present is wikipedia (and the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, which you can reach from the wiki page).

See also:


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