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How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE, they changed the world with astonishing inventions — democracy, the alphabet, philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematical proof, rational medicine, coins, architectural canons, dra ...Show more
How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers by Aristotle
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Aristotle’s Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of stories—whether novels, short fiction, plays, screenplays, or nonfiction. Aristotle was the first to identify the keys to plot, character, audience perception, tragic pleasure, and dozens of other critical points of g ...Show more
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Aristotle
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and self-control, friendship and courage, Aristotle's lectu ...Show more
Politics by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy
Aristotle examines government, politics and how societies are run - from households to city states - and establishes how successful constitutions can best be initiated and upheld. A timeless study of politics and society by one of the all-time greatest thinkers. A student of Plato, Aristotle is consider ...Show more
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils - and even for ordinary citizens in the courts of law. In response, the technique of rhetoric rapidly developed, bringing virtu ...Show more
The Metaphysics by Aristotle
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"All men by nature are actuated with the desire of knowledge," declared Aristotle. The philosopher's works are foundational to the history of science, and his treatise on metaphysics, or "first philosophy," is divided into sections of previous philosophical thought and theories; a refutation of skeptici ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle Hailed by Dante as "the master of those who know," the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) surveyed every field of learning known to the ancient world and pioneered the sciences of psychology and logic. A disciple of Plato and the tutor to Alexander the Great, Aristot ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy
One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a new Penguin Classics translation. Aristotle's classic treatise is based on his famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency. Reacting against Plato's absolutism, Aristotle insist ...Show more
The Politics by Aristotle
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, "The Politics" still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish ...Show more
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